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TRUTH OF THE HOUR 



NOT THE TRUTH OF YESTERDAY, NOT 

THE TRUTH FOR TOMORROW, BUT 

THE TRUTH FOR TODAY 



REVIVE THE THOUGHT ON HOW TO 
DEAL PERSONALLY WITH GOD 



Shall we sell the truth to error^s hour, 
And submit our minds to an evil power? 
Shall we go astray in the time of light? 
Turn the brightest day to the darkest night? 



W. G. CANION 

BALTIMORE, MD, 






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Copyright, 1919 

W. G. CANION 

Baltimore, Md. 



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**Risc, and measure the temple of God, and the ahar, and them that worship therein." 
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unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shaU they tread under foot forty and two months. 

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"And I will give power unto my two witnesses, (two churches) and they shall prophesy 
a thousand two hundred and three score (not that length of time, but a specific citation of the 
past) days, clothed in sackcloth." (A form of dress and eating.) Rev. 11-3. 

"These are the two olive trees, (See Roms. 11; 24) and the two candlesticks (Church, 
Rev. 1 ; 20) standing before the God of the earth." Rev. 11-4. 



"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a WITNESS 
unto all nations; and then shall the end come." Matt. 24-14. 



CONTENTS. 



I 



Chapter I. Page 

The Origin of "This Is My Last Call." God Is a 
Person Who Works Lawfully 5 

Chapter II. 
The Lawyers of Fame. Creation 13 

Chapter III. 

Power Is Personified Law (Genesis 1 : 21). The Fact 
(Isaiah 66 : 8). Revealed. The Effect of the Er- 
roneous Belief. The Earth _^ 19 

Chapter IV. 

Melchisedec Took Charge after the First Week of 
Inventing and Planning by the Lord. The Defini- 
tion of the Earth's Gravity. Gravity 39 

Chapter V. 

Where Did Cain Get His Wife? The Ten Command- 
ments 59 

Chapter VI. 

The Churches with the Adamic Nature. The Tempta- 
tion of Eve. The Law of Rest on the Sabbath 66 



iv Contents. 

Chapter VII. Page 

The Governments Are Endorsing the Mixed Laws of 
Good and Evil. The Song of Co-operation 81 

Chapter VIII. 

When They Cry Peace and Safety, then Sudden 
Destruction Cometh. League of Peace. The 
Woman, the Woman 88 

Chapter IX. 

Suffragettism the Effect and Not the Cause. The 
Last Thread 103 



Chapter X. 

What Church Is God's Church? The Work of the 
Holy Spirit 115 

Chapter XL 
The Book of Revelation Foretold 123 

Chapter XII. 

What Are the Keys to the Kingdom of God? What 
Is the Door to the Kingdom? What Is the Stone 
on Which the Foundation of the Church Stands? 
The Lost Key 128 

Chapter XIII. 

Christ Interrogates Peter. The Promise. A Trip 
Through the Garden of Christian Experiences 134 



Contents. v 

Chapter XIV. Page 

Except Ye Become Converted, Ye Shall Not Enter 
the Kingdom of Heaven. Joy the First Outward 
Sign. The Fourth. The Fifth. The Sixth. The 
Seventh. Without Faith It Is Impossible to Please 
God 146 



Chapter XV. 

A Prayer of Fruit-Faith. The Prayer in the Garden. 
Christ's Sermon on the Mount. Sure Sign of the 
Hypocrite 165 



Chapter XVI. 

The Spirit of Meekness Is a Tamed Tongue. Ninth 
Degree. Temperance Is the Last Named, but Not 
the Least. The Second Initiation 171 



Chapter XVII. 
Come Out of Her, My People. What Is Sin? 179 

Chapter XVIII. 

A Distinction Between the Gift of Knowledge and 
Talent and Education 185 

Chapter XIX. 

Salvation to Others Is Not Necessarily by the Gift 
of Knowledge. How Knowledge Has Usurped 
Authority of the Other Gifts. The Gift of Divine 
Healing Explained. The Gift of Faith 195 



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VI Contents, 

Chapter XX. Page 

The Gift of Miracles. The Gift of Discernment. The 
Gift of Wisdom. The Gift of Tongues. The New- 
Tongues. What Is the Gift of Tongues For? The 
Interpretation of Tongues 211 



Chapter XXL 
The Twenty-Fifth Chapter of Matthew 235 

Chapter XXII. 

The Eleventh Chapter of Revelations and What It 
Means to the World at Present 241 



N 



The Truth of the Hour 



THE INDISPENSABLE LAW, OR THE LAW 
THAT IS NATURAL TO THE THING. 



Law is a thing that need not be confined in 
discussing just the major things, but it inevitably 
reaches down with its full force into the minor 
details of life. 

As a foundation on which to conclude the 
argument of every thought and principle ad- 
vanced, it will suit our purpose better to hold to 
the phrase "natural law." 

I fear we do not emphasize natural law to 
a sufficient degree, especially in the momentary 
events of life. We do not stop to consider how 
immutable and absolute are the laws pertaining 
to the things of life, whether they be great or 
small. There is little or no excuse for any one's 
ignorance as to the truth of any subject or thing 
accessible to investigation, if he will learn from 
the dictionary of natural law. 

It seems to be a common fact that the 
people of every nation sentimentally feel that 
their nation is heaven-born, i. e., a large majority 
seem to fully believe that their nation is the 



2 The Truth of the Hour, 

complete definition of what we understand to 
be Christian. But whether or not it is beheved, 
the fact remains that a nation's timely existence 
depends entirely upon the kind of laws it per- 
sonifies, since in this respect it is in just the same 
danger from internal eruption as from external 
attacks. 

Safety of a nation means primarily that the 
proper thought and action must be in the people 
as well as the proper motive and method must 
be established in the government. If people 
were educated to resign their whole dispositions 
and will power to the decisions of natural law, 
troubles of nations would not only be lessened, 
but probably eliminated in time. 

It is somewhat peculiar, if we will note the 
difference in the interpretation of natural and 
unnatural law, varying, of course, with the view 
of the person. Each person thinks his point of 
view the natural law. The reason is plain. 
There are two sides to all questions, the building 
up or constructive, and the tearing down or 
destructive. He who invents, builds, creates and 
otherwise improves, of course, personifies the 
natural laws to that end, while he who follows 
destruction and plans to tear down and destroy 
naturally personifies the law for that purpose. 
The former we may term natural law; the latter, 



My Last Call. 3 

unnatural lav/. Even so, the former law to the 
latter person is unnatural law because his 
nature is to tear down. So the term changes 
with the nature of the person. 

Prohibition, suffrage, initiative and refer- 
endum, recall of judges, international law, im- 
migration, tariff, co-operative commerce, co- 
operative labor, competitive commerce and com- 
petitive labor, as well as all religious hobbies 
that come before Congress for acts of legislation, 
should be concluded upon the natural law of the 
thing. 

If the natural law can be established by a 
party when engaged in a controversy, it will jar 
and quake the soul of his opponent. 

It may be recalled that President Wilson, in 
speaking before the joint houses of the United 
States Congress, touched one chord on natural 
international law, and like a flash of electricity 
through a clouded sky of an uncertain future, 
he harmonized the American people and shook 
the seat of the German Empire, insomuch that 
the rebounding vibrations brought a rising voice 
of protestation from almost every German- 
American. The chord on which the President 
touched was natural international law to all 
nations up to the time when the German Empire 
cast off from her official personnel those natural 



4 The Truth of the Hour, 

international laws concerning the freedom of the 
high seas. 

One of the main efforts herein is to defend 
natural law that builds freedom, wealth and 
prosperity, to show that law only has power 
through personification, and that any law is 
dead on paper or written on tables of stone. 

The Bible introduces Jehovah to man and 
recommends Him as unchangeable, not particu- 
larly physically, but lawfully. The laws He 
advocates are natural and unchangeable. They 
are the same yesterday and will be the same 
tomorrow. The infinite chain of natural law 
was the first message from God to immortal 
man and it is the last one to mortal man. 



My Last Call, 5 

CHAPTER I. 

''My Last Call." 

It was in the year 1896 when I offered my 
first prayer and the Lord healed my brother. 
It took me about thirteen years to learn the 
most important lesson that man can learn from 
God, in my opinion, namely, that God does things 
without man's help. He does not need the co- 
operation of the man to save him. 

In the last part of the year 1907, I was in 
Douglas, Arizona, and had a vision that origi- 
nated the above words, ''My last call." It was 
on Monday night when one like unto the 
Saviour appeared above my head and said in 
an inaudible tone: ''This is my last call.'' 

For a long time I naturally thought that 
the vision w^as for my benefit alone. I reasoned 
that Jesus had been kind in sending me warning 
that He would not call again. Later, in Bisbee, 
Arizona, I heard another message. It said: "My 
servant O'Neil has fallen from whence I have 
called him and I will give thee his place." 

John Irvin O'Neil was a minister of the 
gospel and a very devout man. He fell on the 
fanaticism of fasting. He was deluded on that 



6 The Truth of the Hour. 

point, and in 1910 he fasted about fifty days in 
Los Angeles, California, and died without eating. 
His wife and adopted daughter, Alice, both died 
two days later from the same cause, but they 
were both fed by the Los Angeles authorities 
several meals before they succumbed. James E. 
Butler, also one of the fasting pact, did not die, 
but I learned later that he was blind for months. 

Some years later I learned that ''This is my 
last call" did not mean to me alone, but to all 
the world. The last call of Jesus is a call to love 
and a call to life ; it is a call to natural law, the 
law of righteousness. Yes, a call for the life of 
law as well as a call for the life of the living. 
Moreover, it is a call to power. While it means 
a call to the good things, we must not overlook 
the fact that it will inevitably call the unpleasant 
things. It calls up hate and unnatural law in 
all its fullness. It calls for the death of the 
personnel of the unnatural laws. 

What is natural law and unnatural law? 
When is a law dead and when is it alive? What 
is power? 

The foregoing questions may be answered 
in brief to the satisfaction of some minds, but 
to others it is possible that not only this book 
will fail to satisfy their minds, but many books 
may be written and mentally consumed with 



My Last Call. 7 

indecision still remaining. The answer is a very 
simple matter and easily understood if we will 
start in connection with the following thought: 
What is truth? But that question answered 
will not be as extensively educating as the truth 
of the hour. 

The ten commandments as given at Mt. 
Sinai are truth. The writers of the Bible being 
inspired is truth. In fact, the world could hardly 
contain the books that could be written on 
fabric truth, but the truth that the individual 
needs is the truth of the hour. He cannot hope 
to become acquainted with all truth, for even 
if he should live throughout eternity, it would 
not be so enjoyable unless there were still truths 
to learn. 

It is needless to waste further words, for 
any ordinary reasonable person will agree that 
there were points vital to the Jew, even life 
and death, that are absolutely non-essential to 
us. The truth of the hour is needed to save us, 
for it is the error of the hour that will destroy. 

If we are enlightened as to the truth of 
today, why should we worry that tomorrow an 
error might overcome us? 

If we grasp the truth today, we have a 
better chance to know how to grasp it to- 
morrow. 



8 The Truth of the Hour. 

Remember the dying thief on the cross : 

^'Lord, remember me when thou comest into 
thy Kingdom." 

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, today, thou 
shalt be with me in paradise. 

No matter what the condemned thirf had 
done, no matter how many had come and gone 
before him with a multitude of deeds of right- 
eousness to their credit, the truth of the hour 
revealed to him elevated him to a plane equal 
to the greatest. 

Shall we sell the truth of the hour, 
And submit our minds to an evil power? 
Shall we go astray in the time of light. 
Turn the brightest day to the darkest night? 

Let us keep in mind natural and unnatural 
law. With that in mind we may be able to 
treat our subject fairly and extract from it a 
definite understanding of the truth for every 
man. The truth of the hour for one's considera- 
tion is the natural law of the thing, and the right 
power of that truth is the personification of 
that law. 

GOD IS A LAWYER. 

God is a lawyer with the greatest of plans, 
He causes the moisture to water the lands; 
He invented all things and appointed the earth 
To deliver, as a mother a child, in birth. 

(Gen. 1; 24.) 



My Last Call, 

It doesn't give birth to things in a day, 
Yet He created them in the selfsame way; 
But it has come to us as a ray of light, 
That He made man in a day and night. 

We must not delude our minds in the song 
That days were more than twenty-four hours long. 
The chapters are truth, and value we must 
Give same to the last as that of the first. 

From sun to sun is doubtless the same 

As in the days of Mosaic claim; 

So why suggest the argument wrong 

That the days were twenty-four hours long. 

Read both chapters and you will find 
That He had not such a thing in mind 
To produce materials contrary to law — 
A thing He condemned long time ago. 

Study the first chapter and be content 
To limit create to the meaning invent. 
The second chapter is the work completed. 
The extent of the meaning of created. 

It says on the sixth day He did create 
The man and woman and told them to mate; 
But if such short time was all of the plan, 
Adam was surely different from a man. 

Time is a law that is always regarded 
In making all things — it can't be avoided; 
So this is why He had in His mind. 
They must be created "after their kind." 



10 The Truth of the Hour. 

Christ was second Adam, pure and sublime, 
First a babe He came, then a man in time. 
If with Him the law of time was regarded, 
With Adam it surely would not be avoided. 

To teach that God made things in a week, 
Is not becoming to the house of the meek. 
God acknowledges in which "after their kind" 
The supreme factor is the law of time. 

The definition of power is evidently the 
law of the thing in the person. Power is per- 
sonified law. If we want to tear down some- 
thing we personify the destructive law. If we 
wish to build we personify the constructive law. 

The Lord's power of righteousness and 
supremacy in all things is due to His strict 
adherence to personified law. I hope this state- 
ment will be particularly remembered by the 
reader in the closing chapters of this book. God 
does not only provide, but it is a natural conse- 
quence that every law or system thereof has 
a body in which to work for it to have powder. 
God is a personified chain of immutable law, 
and He would not authorize a law of power 
unless He gave it a body; neither could He pro- 
duce a person with power without giving him 
a law. I Cor. 15; 35-38, ''But God giveth it 
a body as it hath pleased Him and every seed 
its own body." 






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Law and person are inseparable; therefore, 
the good or evil result of a thing is only a matter 
of decision of law by the one who is to accomplish 
the deed. Law exists in groups or families and 
in this respect bears a remarkable similarity to 
families of birds, beasts, fish, fowl and even 
planets. After all, why not they resemble the 
law-system when they were made by law? 

Law can be divided into four different chan- 
nels of thought, and presently I wish to treat 
my subject in four law groups. First, natural 
law eternal. Second, natural law temporal. 
Third, unnatural law eternal. Fourth, unnat- 
ural law temporal. The former two generate. 
The latter two degenerate. 

I do not believe that a person lives who is 
intelligent enough to personify an infinite chain 
of the first and second. And I do not believe 
a person could live who did personify an infinite 
chain of the third and fourth. In fact, either 
of the four classes did not occupy the attention 
of the Lord so much as the persons who per- 
sonify a mixture of the four classes of law — the 
law that is biblically termed ''the knowledge of 
good and evil." 

If the reader could imagine himself a 
Supreme Being who was to decide and choose 
the characters for earth and heaven, no doubt 



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the man with the mixed character of good and 
evil would get his first judgment. The worst 
people are those who personify both good and 
bad laws. The good laws prolong life until the 
personnel can sow evil seeds to produce more 
life for more suffering mentally and physically. 

Those who follow wholly after a bad system 
of law will not last long enough to do much 
harm. But as the Lord is interested in an 
eternal life, naturally He wants a people who 
will live eternally. So God's most severe opposi- 
tion is against the person who endorses a mixed 
law of good and evil and He is in favor of the 
ones who follow natural eternal law. 



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CHAPTER 11. 

The Lawyers of Fame. 

The most famous lawyers and statesmen of 
all the world, the men not only whose names 
but in some cases the very details of their lives 
seem to expand and grow equal to the popula- 
tion of the earth, the men who understood the 
most technical and fruit-bearing principles of 
all law, were men of biblical denomination. Moses 
was a lawyer, emancipator, legislator, teacher, 
preacher, doctor, warrior, statesman. David 
was selected from a sheep camp and became a 
great leader because he selected the simple edu- 
cation of natural law. Solomon succeeded 
David, his father, to the throne of Israel and 
became so learned in the law that he exclaimed, 
''There is no new thing under the sun." 

The New Testament states that Christ was 
an uneducated man, yet in all His sayings He 
was unquestionably supported by natural law. 
Those who opposed Him were compelled to per- 
sonify the laws of human destruction to substan- 
tiate their claim. 

Last, but by no means least, came the 
Apostle Paul, a man who could readily answer 



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the positive truth on any subject without con- 
flicting with any recorded statement previously 
made by him or any of his predecessors. 

The above furnishes a mild yet very posi- 
tive proof of the accuracy of the great educa- 
tion on natural law and how it brings men to 
the front. 

Those who are deep in the love of God 
(good) must believe all things. See I Corin- 
thians, ch. xiii, particularly the seventh verse, 
which reads, with reference to love: ''Beareth 
all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, 
and endure th all things." Not that he should 
follow after all things, but that he should be- 
lieve all things. The only manner in which we 
could fulfill this scripture is to know and under- 
stand that natural and unnatural law both exist, 
and in the absence of one the other is sure to 
be present. 

Natural law is supreme in heaven, but its 
opposing element is unnatural law. Unnatural 
law has always and will always exist. Even 
though not seen, even though not heard, even 
though not felt or manifest in any manner, yet 
as an unseen guest it ever abides. Its powerful 
hand will never die until it fails to find a person 
in whom to dwell. The only reason, therefore, 
that the people in the new earth will not be 



My Last Call. 15 

sinners is because they will positively refuse to 
personify any impure law or fragment thereof. 

As natural law is supreme in heaven, so it 
is likewise supreme on earth, but unnatural law 
has become an effective opposing element 
through multitudes of people. The unnatural 
law is seen, it is felt, it is heard; in fact, it finds 
persons who are accepting and manifesting it 
in every conceivable manner. Even though un- 
natural law is destructive in its very nature, it 
is growing in favor more habitually to the per- 
sonnel of the earth. It has a growing appetite 
for cultivating honor to factions of destruction. 

By the method of natural law all things 
were invented and made. It is by the personi- 
fication of unnatural law that many things of 
creation have been torn down. It will continue 
its devastation until all connected therewith 
will be destroyed. The work of this monster 
is manifest in four words — ill-temper, selfish- 
ness, ignorance, hatred. The opposing prin- 
ciples may likewise be covered by four words — 
knowledge, righteousness, goodness, love — words 
that cannot be separated one from another. 

Think how long the earth has been in 
existence and how long it has been inhabited 
by man. In all this time we have record of 
but one who really did advocate personification 



16 The Truth of the Hour. 

of those natural principles as are seen in the 
four words quoted in the above. 

According to the prevailing theory, we have 
inhabited the earth about six thousand years, 
and even though we have had the advantage of 
each other's experiences and teachings, yet there 
is but One out of the billions who have come 
and gone that did accept natural law in its 
fullness. It is a fact that when the infinite chain 
of natural law is advocated by a man, it almost 
instantaneously marks him as superhuman or 
crazy. 

It is now necessary to draw some conclusion 
from the works and doctrines of the church. All 
the churches claim to be Christian. Well and 
good; but the one that suits this purpose is the 
one which claims the personification of God's 
law. They who herald the first, second and 
third angel's messages given in the fourteenth 
chapter of Revelations are the Laodicean or 
last church. Even though they claim God to 
be a lawful God, they seem to voice the senti- 
ment of most church people when interpreting 
certain parts of His word. A discussion of the 
first two chapters of the Bible will prove this 
point. 

The Laodiceans can in a good measure see 
the lawfulness of God and they comprehend 



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[faintly that He desires His people to be lawful, 
[but it seems that their measure of His lawfulness 
[has been filled, and they thereby disallow the 
lawfulness of Him to exceed their knowledge in 
[the matter. 

Creation. 

Before going into the study of creation, it will 
be best to present another thought about law 
and its close relationship wuth God. There can 
be no doubt that He is a thoroughly lawful 
person. Again, when I say lawful I mean the 
laws of the things to be done. Would there be 
any honor or reason to do a thing by any other 
law than the law of the thing? Even man is 
lawful enough to do things lawfully in his 
specialties for. his livelihood. 

Church people have that old human weak- 
ness of imagining that God keeps in secret some 
private method by which He works. There was 
once a day when His ways were past finding 
out, not because He was selfish with the knowl- 
edge of the ways of doing a thing right, but 
because our human demand for mystery, lazi- 
ness and rebellion of the human mind as a race 
has probably been responsible for the abundance 
of mystery remaining with us. Anything that 
was not accompanied with mysterious and dis- 
connected know^ledge has not been accepted as 



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a true type of saving righteousness. Nothing 
would please the Lord more than to reveal to 
His people all things if they would rid them- 
selves of those ideas and accept the fact that 
He is the personal support of every infinite 
chain of good law. 

Because we understand a law is no reason 
why God would not work by that law. Further, 
we have no reason to believe that God will work 
in any other manner than by the law of the 
thing. Because man understands architecture 
is it reasonable to suppose that God would build 
a house some other way? Is it reasonable to 
suppose that He would begin at the roof in 
preference to the foundation? 

Let us turn the leaves of our dictionary to 
the word power and try to learn the definition. 
Even after we can recite it by heart we know 
but little more than at first. The question is 
great, but simple to answer. 



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CHAPTER III. 
Power is Personified Law. 

The greatness, the power, the righteousness 
land goodness of God all come through His 
^strict adherence to law. He does not possess 
all power in the sense of monopoly, even though 
He has the greatest power. There are powers of 
evil that He does not control. Good and evil 
are manifest by personified law. God personifies 
the infinite chain of good laws. The extreme 
evildoer (if such a thing should ever exist) per- 
sonifies the chain of bad laws, and those that are 
partly bad and partly good personify a mixture 
of good and bad laws. God has no control over 
the evil; that is. He has no monopoly over that 
power. His power of control would be confined 
to an outward opposition. 

The greatest power is obtained by a collec- 
tion of laws rightly proportioned, weighed, valued 
and personally directed. 

There is no law by which a thing can be 
done that is superior to the law of the thing. 

God has superior power, but it is by collect- 
ing laws and building an infinite chain of the 
highest quality of law pertaining to the thing 
before He attempts the purpose. 



20 The Truth of the Hour. 

God warned the church that if a messenger 
or prophet should come teaching not according 
to the law and prophecy, to give no heed to him, 
because there would be no light in his teachings. 
(Isa. 8:20.) 

A true messenger of God would be recog- 
nized by strict adherence to law. 

The evidence daily before our eyes is suffi- 
cient to convince the fair minded that God 
through any choice of His own does not work 
by any private law. He works by the law of 
the thing to be done. 

For one to become equal in power to God or 
Satan in any momentary event in life is only 
a matter of decision as to what law to personify. 

The Bible speaks of the law being weak on 
tables of stone, or, in other words, when non- 
personified. (Roms. 8:3.) No matter how 
powerful a natural law is to build up and save, no 
matter how powerful an unnatural law is to tear 
down and destroy, they are both dead on paper. 
If there is anything that is dead, if there is any- 
thing that is more dead than death itself, it is 
a written non-personified law. 

God could not take His law and deliver man 
from the sins, because the law was non-personi- 
fied. Here is where we must conclude that God 
loses in power. He has no monopoly on that 



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law-power that man has. His law has to be in 
the person and He cannot save him until He 
gets His law there. What law? The infinite 
chain of law that covers all good things. 

The first and hardest thing for God to do is 
to get the voluntary willingness of man to accept 
His law. He can easily write it on the heart of 
man if He can get his consent. The law needs 
to be in the person in just the same sense that 
the laws of architecture need to be applied to the 
house for its erection. 

After seriously considering these things, we 
must conclude that law and person are insepa- 
rable, if we are to accomplish the result of the 
thing to be. Life without law is impossible. 
Law without life is like a sound that is not 
heard; it is, yet it is not. 

After giving this proper study and again 
taking a historical view of all things past and 
present, and remembering that law is powerless 
without person, all atheism, skepticism, infi- 
delity, as well as all superstition about a private 
law by which God works, should instantly leave 
our minds. 

There are ways in which God works that we 
do not understand, but it is only because we d6 
not understand all the technical laws pertaining 
to the things with which He is working. The 



22 The Truth of the Hour. 

answer is absolute. There is a personal God and 
one who works lawfully. 

Now for a study of the first two chapters of 
Genesis. First, we must acknowledge that His 
word is true and that there is no dodging the 
issue by assuming that some things have a 
spiritual meaning. We must accept the words 
^'evening and morning'* in Genesis as sufficient 
evidence that the days were but twenty-four 
hours long. Such evidence is sufficient proof, 
since the words ''sun to sun" in other parts of 
the Bible verify the fact. 

The arguments and theories advanced by 
others that those days were extensive periods of 
time cannot be accepted, because the natural 
laws in connection with the two statements do 
harmonize. 

The first chapter reads that God created all 
things in six ''evening and morning days." 
Where evening and morning are mentioned it 
is perfectly logical to understand that the days 
were but twenty-four hours long. 

The second chapter incidentally referring 
to the accomplishments of the first six days 
(see verses 4 to 7) plainly states that as yet 
nothing of materia! nature has been produced: 
"These are the generations of the heavens and 
the earth when they were created in the day 



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that the Lord God made the heavens. And 
every plant of the field before it was in the 
earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: 
for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon 
the earth, and there was not man to till the soil.'' 

Now, note the language in the first chap- 
ter: ''So God created man in His own image, in 
the image of God created He him; male and 
female created He them." (Verse 28.) Now, 
note verse 31: ''And God saw everything that 
He had made, and behold, it was very good. 
And the evening and the morning were the 
sixth day." 

The first chapter clearly states that they had 
been made and the second states that they had 
not been made. It had not yet rained. The 
fact that it must rain must personally impress 
us that God waits for the natural course of time 
and law. There was not yet a man to till the soil. 
It would be useless to make the man and have 
nothing for him to do. It would be contrary to 
the law of man. He would be miserable with a 
world in front of him and nothing for him to 
do. It was also necessary for the air to develop 
sufficiently that rain would naturally follow, 
before it was safe to produce Adam, in order 
that the prophecy could be fulfilled concerning 



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the ''breathing into his nostrils the breath of 
life." (Gen. 2:7.) 

The church people have interpreted the first 
chapter as conclusive evidence that man was 
finished and actually set out a self-sustaining 
creature the sixth day, regardless of the fact 
that such interpretation is not supported by the 
second chapter. Still, they seem to think that 
if they do not believe that way, they would be 
lowering the Deity and disbelieving the first 
chapter. They are not conscious of the fact 
that any interpretation of the first chapter is 
lowering His name if not thoroughly in harmony 
with the second chapter. They also overlook the 
fact that God would not completely ignore and 
eliminate many technical laws absolutely neces- 
sary in the infinite chain of law in creation. 
It is absurd to believe such a thing. It is beyond 
the bounds of possibilities for God to ignore the 
laws of a thing which He Himself originally 
collected. For instance, He made man accord- 
ing to a law that He Himself studied out and 
planned. Then who is the sane man that would 
claim that God would reverse Himself so shortly. 

^ Error is easily wedged into the fabric truth 
and a little error will defile and defeat, in the 
end, the purpose of constructive law. (A chain 
is not stronger than its weakest link.) 






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He has warned us to rightly divide the 
words of truth. The secret of how to accom- 
plish this division is plainly to be seen. Believe 
the statements according to the law of the thing 
about which they were made. Give each state- 
ment its full value according to the thing spoken 
about. 

If our present belief will not harmonize with 
all the Scripture bearing directly on the subject, 
then it is only logical that we should change the 
belief until all Scripture statements support each 
other. The Scriptures should not be limited, 
twisted nor excluded to the support of any 
belief, even though it be right for one chapter 
to modify and explain another. 

Genesis 1:21. 

God made the whales and every living thing 
that the waters brought forth abundantly ''after 
their kind." I introduce this statement, ''after 
their kind," as positive from God that He works 
lawfully. He works according to the law of the 
thing. Nothing could be more righteous, nothing 
more sensible, nothing would signify a God of 
great power more than the fact that He works 
according to the law of their kind. The sacred 
word ''Holy'' could not imply more. It may 
appeal more to the sentiment, but it would not 



26 The Truth of the Hour. 

express righteousness more than this statement 
''after their kind." 

It seems never to have occurred to us that 
this statement means more than a horse is a 
horse, a cow is a cow, or a man is a man. If He 
means all that this intimates (other statements 
bear out that He does), then we must conclude 
that He took the necessary amount of time for 
each and every thing created. 

The law of time for making and maturing 
animal and plant life is more than a day or a 
week. God says in the book of Peter that He 
regards one day as a thousand years or a thou- 
sand years as one day. This means that a day 
is important in the stream of time ; and for other 
things it is equally important to have a thousand 
years. The time needed depends upon the work 
we do; therefore God regards one as important 
as the other. It is not necessary to leave the 
first chapter for our proof, since it is found in the 
twenty-fourth verse: 

''And God said, let the earth bring forth the 
living creature after his kind, cattle and creeping 
thing, and beast of the earth after his kind, and 
it was so." We cannot question but that the 
earth has obeyed this command to the letter, 
even in producing the Messiah. All things have 
been brought forth according to the law "of 



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their kind." To believe that God did materially 
produce these things in a week, we would have 
to close our eyes to the explanatory statements 
in both the first and the second chapters as well 
as to the earth with its testifying multiples that 
have been brought forth according to the law of 
time of each thing. 

Our motto is to rightly divide the words of 
truth. In summing up the ways and means of 
doing a thing we should give each law its full 
value; at the same time we should not over- 
value it. 

If we again read the fourth verse of the 
second chapter and use the word ''invented" as 
a substitute for the words ''created" and "made," 
the truth will begin to loom on the horizon of 
the fair mind and the mystery of creation will 
disappear. 

There should be no objection to the use of 
the word "invented" in preference to the others, 
as it means the same, and even more, because 
it is positively the primary essential step to all 
things created. The first week and the invent- 
ing are both primary; beyond that the argument 
stops. Inventing is positively the primary step 
of all creators. 

It is not sensible to contend that God would 
create the material things before He invents; 



28 The Truth of the Hour. 

the latter cannot be a secondar>^ matter. If the 
first week of creation was the week of material 
production, then there was surely a prior week 
in which the inventing was done. Hence the 
first chapter is not treating with the first week. 

The Fact. 

There was nothing done the first week but 
the inventing and the laying of the plans; 
personifying the laws pertaining to the thing to 
be done; mechanicalizing the laws and organ- 
izing the personnel preparatory to the great 
work of producing the things of the earth and the 
immediate associate planets. In the first week 
He invented the planets, many different species 
of animals, fish, fowls, plants, etc., that were to 
be on the earth. He described to the angels the 
laws pertaining to each thing and gave detailed 
instructions as to just how every thing would 
be finally worked out. It was not until the 
close of the sixth day that the angels understood 
the plans sufiiciently for them to rejoice and 
enjoy the first Sabbath. 

Isaiah 66:8. 

''Who hath heard such a thing? Who hath 
seen such a thing? Shall the earth be made to 
bring forth in one day? Or shall a nation be 



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born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed 
.she brought forth her children. Shall I bring 
forth and not cause to bring forth, saith the 
Lord: Shall I cause to bring forth and shut 
the womb? saith the Lord." 

The words of the prophet Isaiah are brought 
out to show that men in vital touch with God 
did not believe that God would do or have the 
earth to do, or bring forth things out of their 
order. 

The following, which are the words of Jeho- 
vah, are presented by Job: ''Where wast thou 
when I laid the foundations of the earth? De- 
clare if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid 
the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who 
hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are 
the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid 
the cornerstone thereof?" Job 38 : 4-7. 

These words of the Lord seem to fully 
indicate that God had in mind the first six days 
of creation as a matter of inventing and laying 
His plans. The seventh verse concludes by 
saying: ''When the morning stars sang together 
and all the sons of God shouted for joy." This 
indicates that it took the Lord a certain length 
of time to lay His plans and that there was 
probably more or less anxiety, even suspense, 
among the angels. At the expiration of this 



30 The Truth of the Hour, 

ungiven length of time (supposedly a week), the 
angels, His sons, understood the plans and 
came together for great rejoicing. The Sabbath- 
day is evidently a commemoration of this rest 
and rejoicing among the Lord and His sons. 

Revealed. 

Following the first week of inventing and 
laying the plans, the keeping and instituting of 
the Sabbath rest, Melchisedec was placed in 
charge of creating every thing to the law of their 
kind. He remained on earth until after Abra- 
ham's day, and it was probably part of His 
assisting angels who visited Abraham's camp 
on the plains of Mamre. (Genesis 18.) The 
law of time was regarded then as it is now. 
Every thing was done and created after the law 
of the kind. 

The Effect of the Erroneous Belief. 

The erroneous belief has well and strongly 
played its part before the world. It is considered 
in more ways than one to have caused serious 
opposition to God and His word by many intel- 
ligent people who were probably honest in their 
belief because of the impossibility of the instan- 
taneous creation. 



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First, the scientists of the earth have dis- 
puted the theological interpretation of the in- 
stantaneous creation by the unyielding word of 
natural law. Many men well learned in various 
branches of knowledge naturally accepted the 
verdict of the theologians, thinking, of course, 
that they were in vital touch with the God of 
creation so as to properly interpret His word. 
In turn they knew that the verdict did not 
harmonize with the scientific law pertaining to 
the creation of things. They believed in the 
law pertaining to the creation of the thing more 
than they believed in a God of an instantaneous 
creation. Naturally they reached the conclusion 
that the God of the Bible was an unlawful God. 
He had to be either unlawful in the making of 
things contrary to the ''law of their kind," or 
He did not make them in six days, according to 
the claim. 

Second, man holds an inventor in very high 
esteem and has very little historical honor for the 
manufacturer, and in God's case the natural 
result has been dishonor as an inventor, and 
He is placed in the second class, or that of the 
manufacturer. In the theory that He created 
all things in a week, no allowance has been made 
for the planning and the inventing. In this man- 
ner He is held up with the unlawfulness of doing 



32 The Truth of the Hour. 

a thing before He planned it — accused of just 
beginning a thing immediately in a rough and 
haphazard manner as if He suddenly awoke on 
the morning of the first day of the week, guessing 
that everything would be all right because He 
was God rather than from the inevitableness of 
thought, plans and compilation of perfect law. 

It is an erroneous thought according to the 
following: The Saviour highly favored planning 
before working when he said, ''What one among 
you aiming to build a tower would not first sit 
down and figure up the cost" (result). 

God also keeps books: ''Not even a sparrow 
shall fall to the ground without His knowledge" 
(Matt. 10:29.) 

The real foundation — inventing and laying 
the plans — has been made a secondary matter 
by the leaders of thought in the church, and the 
material producer has been honored above the 
inventor. 

The Earth. 

Owing to the arrangement of mechanical 
law the earth has been able to produce and to 
reproduce materials, but as it has no brains for 
thought matter it could not have done the in- 
venting. In such existing error it can be said 
that the earth has been made equal to God. This 



My Last Call. 33 

conception of Him has not magnified Him to be 
greater in power than the earth, and we may 
easily acknowledge that the absence of the in- 
venting-foundation is probabl}^ the unseen basic 
principle of ignorance on which the Sun and 
Mars worship originated. 

We usually think that the greatness of God 
is honored by our imagining Him working in 
mystery, but He does not appreciate such honor. 
The mystery of God is only due to our limited 
learning and to our refusing to learn, or becom- 
ing entangled with the mixed laws of good and 
evil. We may never hope to hold within our 
measure the abundance of His knowledge, but 
the mystery of His workings will pass away 
when we can accept the fact He works accord- 
ing to the law of the thing. 

Third, not only do we dishonor the Creator, 
but we likewise dishonor the thing created if we 
hold to the belief of instantaneous creation. 
Take a thought on the construction of man; 
consider the compact muscles, the strength, the 
activity, the fine nerve system, the adjustabil- 
ity, the endurance, the combination of mental 
faculties, and think how dishonored they are if 
man were constructed to completion in the same 
length of time it would take for a lizard or a 



34 The Truth of the Hour. 

toad. It would be contrary to the law of things 
and unlike God. 

We fail to notice how unlawful it would be 
for Him to make a grown man in twenty-four 
hours and set him free with the mind of a new- 
born babe, for such would be the case if only 
twenty-four hours old. ''Oh, no," says the man 
of mystery, ''but God gave the man knowledge 
while He was making his flesh and bones." 
Then there is more complication, for we ask that 
if this be the case, why did God give him ears, 
eyes, etc? Why would He give a certain forma- 
tion of law or method by which power the earth 
was later to bring them forth "after their kind" 
and yet He Himself ignore that law which He 
gave? It is not an honor to God for us to 
believe Him to exist in any such sphere of light. 

Children have asked the question, "Can 
God make a four-year-old bull in two minutes?" 
The question is usually answered by "grown- 
ups" by pronouncing it the silly question of a 
child. Instead, it is a very intelligent question, 
more especially since it comes from a child. It 
proves that the brain is naturally inclined to 
natural law and to believe natural law. Later 
his brain is clouded by superstition drilled into 
it by the older people, who in their time had it 
drilled into them. 



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God would not make a four-year-old bull, 
cow, or horse in two minutes. O yes, He 
could make one that would look like it was four 
years old, but we are talking of the truth of the 
thing. It would actually not be more than two 
minutes old. The same applies to a man. He is 
not a man until he is twenty-one years of age or 
thereabout. A structure of flesh twenty-four 
hours old would not be a man, although it looked 
exactly like one. It would be something else; 
something that we have no name for. We know 
that a man becomes a man by twenty-one years' 
experience; twenty-one years of being taught 
through the agencies of five senses. 

We also know that God would not give the 
man these agencies and then dispense with them 
in the creation of one man to the exclusion of all 
others, Christ included. 

The five senses of man are the educators of 
the brain, and if God had made and educated 
him solely through inspiration in the twenty- 
four hours, He would have necessarily been com- 
pelled to dispense with the use of the five senses. 
vSuch an act would be conclusive evidence that 
the man (Adam) either did not have the five 
senses or God acted contrarily to the law of the 
kind; it would further be an acknowledgment 



36 The Truth of the Hour. 

that the five senses were not necessary in thai 
respect. 

Inspiration is defended in the closing pages 
of this book, but not to the exclusion of the 
natural and orderly way of educating man. 
Inspiration is merely a primary act of God to 
a person, which makes education easy, simple 
and rapid, because the mind and body are both 
quickened. Education, much knowledge and 
talent can be developed without divine inspira- 
tion and with all that divine inspiration will not 
come. Inspiration only comes from God to the 
ones He chooses to inspire, usually to those of 
pure motive. 

The mind and body of Adam did not need 
quickening, because he did not sin until he was 
a graduate on all natural law. But since sin 
entered, the mind and body must be quickened 
by the Holy Angel of the Lord before education 
and talent are easily developed. 

Verse 25 in the first chapter of Genesis 
specifically reiterates that He made every 
thing ''after their kind," and concludes in 
God's own w^ords that making them after ''their 
kind" was good. The popular belief virtually 
holds that God would make an oak tree in the 
same length of time that He would a gourd vine. 
It is also believed that He would set these out 



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in the earth before there was any moisture to 
keep them aHve, for the second chapter states 
that as yet it had not rained. 

The idea that God did more than the in- 
venting of herbs, grasses, trees, etc., on the third 
day is preposterously erroneous, for it would 
have required some very unnecessary thought 
and unnatural planning to have kept them alive 
and growing without water. What would have 
been the demand or reason for the creation of 
these things before the natural law method of 
watering them was set in motion? One unlawful 
act would have called for a second, in the same 
manner that one lie calls for another. 

Instead of these doctrines magnifying the 
name of Jehovah they humiliate Him and cause 
many great openings for erroneous beliefs as 
well as bringing the first two chapters of Genesis 
in open contradiction of each other. Jehovah 
desires to be upheld as the greatest image before 
men, and for this reason He is asking us to make 
nothing greater than we make Him. ''Thou 
shalt have no other gods before me." He is 
asking His people not to hold Him up before 
the world as a lawbreaker. Do not give other 
gods credit for working in a lawful manner in 
the things which they undertake and then hold 
Him up as doing everything during creation in 



38 The Truth of the Hour. 

an unlawful manner. Putting aside all law and 
order so as to finish His task in six days or per- 
form something hard to comprehend was farthest 
from His mind. He was in no hurry; there was 
plenty of time for Him. 

The Scripture states, as recorded in the 
book of Peter, that He regards one day as a 
thousand years and a thousand years as one 
day. In other words, He looks upon one day 
of time as being important as a thousand years; 
again, a thousand years are just as important 
in some cases as a day would be in others. 
Every day, year, or thousand years should have 
not equal, but due valuation, the same as in 
analyzing any other problem by natural law. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

Melchisedec Took Charge After the First 

Week of Inventing and Planning 

BY THE Lord. 

"For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest 
of the most high God, who met Abraham return- 
ing from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed 
him; to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part 
of all; first being by interpretation king of 
righteousness, and after that also king of Salem, 
which is, king of peace. Without father, with- 
out mother, without descent, having neither 
beginning of days, nor end of life; but made 
like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest con- 
tinually. Now consider how great this man was, 
unto whom the patriarch Abraham gave the 
tenth of the spoils." Hebrews 7:1-4. 

''And it is yet far more evident: for that 
after the similitude of Melchisedec there arises 
another priest, who is made not after a law of 
a carnal commandment, but after the power of 
an endless life. For he testifieth, Thou art a 
priest forever after the order of Melchisedec." 
Hebrew 7:15, 16, 17. 

These Scripture verses are quoted to show 
the importance of Melchisedec. While the Bible 



40 The Truth of the Hour. 

does not connect him with creation, yet it states 
that he was of heavenly and divine origin. The 
Hght now comes to us that he received his 
instructions to make the earth right from the 
Lord. He organized a band of angels, who 
eagerly volunteered to take part in the great 
plans. He came to this enormous space with 
a few vials of chemicals, drawings and specifica- 
tions of the things he was to manufacture. 

After mixing their first chemicals and start- 
ing the rotary motion of the first gases by chemi- 
cal change and disturbance, they flipped about 
in space and started each planet on its own axis 
as specified in the plans, then waited for the 
developments according to the law of time ''after 
their kind." They depended on the law of time 
as well as the law of chemistry. These tw^o laws 
are laws existing; they are natural, not invented. 
They are merely thought out, selected and 
placed in mechanical order. 

After the gaseous bulk (the earth) solidified 
into a mineral body the angels pitched their 
camp on it and began the first preparation for 
the first plant life. From centrifugal force in 
rapid rotating, the great ball of gas formed into 
a shell, leaving an immense space in the center 
of the earth some five or six thousand miles in 
width. The hollow space was one of the bless- 



My Last Call 41 

ings from the rapid rotation. The space was 
drained by high velocity of rotation, forming 
probably a complete vacuum, which naturally 
results in the attraction of the gases to the earth. 
The heavier gases formed air and are influenced 
to the earth by weight of it directed to a vac- 
uumized space. A vacuum is the only natural 
control for heavier gases, giving the inevitable 
result of attraction, the mere decision of the 
course of action of weight. 

Science shows us there are three master 
gases surrounding the earth : hydrogen, nitrogen, 
ox3^gen. It is supposed by scientists that all 
space is filled with ether, but analyzing the 
situation by natural law, as we would work an 
example by mathematics, we must conclude 
that one of these three gases is the probable 
acting ether that fills space between planets. 
As hydrogen is lighter than any known gas and 
liquidates under low temperature and high 
pressure, then it is fairly good evidence in con- 
nection with other things that it is the filling 
of space. 

The Definition of the Earth's Gravity. 

It is well to have a few words on gravity, 
heat and light. The people of the world have 
long discussed these three great master laws of 



42 The Truth of the Hour. 

the elements, but the accepted theory of today 
is far from the natural law analysis. 

Darkness is merely the absence of light. 
Darkness exists on nothing; therefore it is the 
negative. Darkness and cold are on a par. They 
will both exist in the absence of their opponents. 
They are the original and negative state. Heat 
and light are the positive or opposing elements. 

Light cannot exist on nothing; it must have 
something on which it may reflect in order to 
make its presence known. It is the same with 
heat ; it must have something on which to exist. 
Therefore all theories in regard to the sunlight 
being hot out beyond the air blanket around 
the earth, and the air protecting us from swelter- 
ing heat of the sunshine, is unfounded and un- 
protected theory. Out beyond the blanket of 
air around the earth neither sunlight nor heat 
exists. The sunlight travels through space to 
the different planets, but its travel is not resisted. 
The gas or ether in space is so light in weight 
and so void of body that the light has but small 
chance to reflect until it reaches the planet. 

We will discuss the moon, for example. If 
the elements betw^een the earth and the moon 
were as light as the reflection on the moon we 
could not see it day or night. But the fact that 
we can see the moon often in the day time shows 



My Last Call. 43 

that darkness exists between our blanket of air 
and the moon. The elements are probably not 
total darkness, yet by no means are they a 
brilliant light. 

Heat must exist by some means. It must 
have air or metal of some kind on which it may 
exist. If a bird had no wings, no air, no tree, 
earth on which to alight, it could not exist. 
Heat and light are in that manner similar. They 
must have their productive and maintaining 
elements just the same as the bird, the man or 
the ox. 

Light and heat both travel by force from 
the productive source. Light seems to be the 
greater of the two. Light can exist without 
heat, and at the same time if we place certain 
resisting elements in the path of light, it will 
produce heat, as in the case of the heat of the 
earth. The light from the sun attempts to 
travel to the earth. The air around the earth 
offers resistance and it has such dominating hold 
on the earth that the light must have the ad- 
vantage of the focus before it can penetrate the 
air with sufficient results to create heat. We 
see this by the noonday sun or by living near 
the equator. 

We also may go to a high altitude, where 
the air is light, and even though near the 



44 The Truth of the Hour. 

equator, it is much cooler than at sea level. 
'The less the resistance offered, the less the heat 
of the sunlight. Light also has the ability to 
travel unobvserved. For instance, if you were 
out ten thousand miles from the earth, floating 
or flying through space, the light would be all 
around you and still it would be dark except 
on you. The rays of light from the sun cross the 
elements unobserved, stealing through the dark- 
ness without making any light, unless, however, 
they come in contact with an object on which 
they may reveal themselves. The brief thought 
is this: darkness is the controlling factor until 
light is given both the productive and main- 
taining elements; then it overcomes darkness 
and drives it away. In Genesis 1 :2, we see that 
God said, ''And darkness was upon the face of 
the deep . . ." And He said, ''Let there be 
light, and there was light." We see that light 
is a creation for the purpose of overcoming dark- 
ness and, therefore, must conclude that it does 
not exist on nothing. 

We have the trade winds that tell us of the 
great battle going between the sunlight and 
the air, and also what a great part the focus is 
playing in the battle at the equator. 

Cold is the negative and original condition. 
In the absence of heat the cold exists. Therefore, 



My Last Call. 45 

at the poles it is very cold because the sunlight 
cannot get around with the proper focus to 
enable it to penetrate the air with sufficient 
force to create the heat and drive out the cold. 

But it must be remembered that if the sun- 
light were hot in the elements thousands of 
miles from the earth, it would never be cooler 
than the noonday sun is at our equator. We 
must remember that the sun never sets out 
there, but shines all the time, if that theory be 
correct. Thus, as time rolls on the heat would 
have plenty of time to close in on the north and 
south poles and all the earth would soon become 
hot as the noonday sun at the equator. The 
truth is that the sunlight is not hot, but merely 
has a force to travel sufficient to create heat 
when resisted in its direct path by certain ele- 
ments like the air blanket around the earth. 

While the earth is rotating, of course, the 
sun continues to shine on the equator. By the 
advantage of the focus it heats the air, which 
becomes warmer and warmer at our certain 
point, or home, as the noon approaches. It has 
been proven that the heat is more intense about 
2 p. m. than at 12 noon, which is due to an in- 
creasing heat by the diameter of the focus that 
is taken to be some four hours in width. By 
direct rays of the sunlight the heat begins effec- 



46 The Truth of the Hour, 

tively about 10 a. m. and is not noticeably 
broken until about 2 p. m. unless local changes 
occur to create clouds and break the sun rays. 

But the sun continues the travel on the 
equator by the rotation of the earth, and at 
2 p. m., when the direct ray is changed to a 
slanting ray, the focus is then broken, at which 
time the cooler air begins to regain control. The 
pressure forces the warm air upwards to a height 
where it readily cools. When the ray of light 
is not stopped but merely shifted out of its 
course, or a slanting ray, the heating is re- 
duced. But when the earth, or a spot thereon, 
is in a certain position so the ray of light in its 
travel is definitely stopped, the heat is inten- 
sified. For instance, the air is not heated to 
any great degree by the light coming to the 
earth, but after the materials of the earth have 
resisted and reversed the direct course of the 
light, the heat is then maximized. It is in the 
similar manner as the fire under the oven. If a 
corresponding hot fire were just under the sur- 
face of the ground it would produce heat in the 
same manner as the sun rays do. If you will lay 
a steel bar or wooden handle flat on the ground 
it will get entirely too hot to handle it, but 
stand it up on its end and the heat is not un- 
comfortable to the palm of the hand. 



My Last Call. 47 

When the earth turns to a position where 
the ray of Hght is slanting, the heating at that 
point is weakened so the cold air from the poles, 
begins to overcome the hot air and drives it 
upwards to a place of height where it naturally 
begins to cool. 

There are some theories advanced by some 
people that the westward trend of the trade 
winds is created by the eastward rotation of 
the earth. The westward trend by the winds 
is entirely due to the fact that the winds from 
the poles rush to the equator and cool the air 
faster than the earth revolves, faster than the 
travel of the sunlight, clears the radius of the 
focus. Just two hours behind the center of the 
focus the cooler air can reach the equator, but 
not so north and south of the center of the 
focus. Thus, we see that the breeze w^hich 
reaches the equator tw^o hours behind the center 
of the focus naturally turns westward to follow 
the travel of the sun light. 

Gravity. 

To properly define gravity it will be neces- 
sary to criticize Newton's final conclusion, which 
began with the fall of the apple. When he saw^ 
the apple fall from the tree he should have stood 
by the fact that any one law is no more than a 



48 The Truth of the Hour. 

link in a chain. The falHng of the apple is by 
no means an incident by which he might justly 
conclude that attraction is a dominating factor 
for all planets. In fact, gravity is only an ele- 
ment which may be described to be in the class 
of instinct, or the momentary decision of the 
law of weight for its course of action. The fall 
of the apple told the whole story. The weight 
of the apple brought it to the earth, and gravity 
w^as merely the deciding factor telling the weight 
that the earth was the direction in which it 
should act. 

In the first place we must give the law of 
weight its due valuation, as it is a link of itself. 
It is a link in the infinite chain of law with just 
as much valuable prominence as gravity. The 
law of weight does not exist by the power of 
gravity. When weight is cut loose in space it 
will fall in some direction even in the extreme 
absence of gravitation. There are six specific 
directions, north, south, east, west, top and 
bottom combined by their radiating degrees, 
and if weight is cut loose in space it will plunge 
in one direction and follow with full demands 
of its weight until halted or turned in some 
manner by an opposing element. If there is 
gravity at a certain point, weight being cut 
loose in space will alw:i}s take that course of 



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action, but if there be no gravity at the point, 
the same weight being loosed the second time 
at that point will begin movement just as 
viciously as at any previous time, but likely in 
any direction. 

To come to a conclusion as to the earth's 
gravity, we must first recognize that it is a 
shell. In the center there is a vacuum. Thus 
vacuum attracts all gases. Similar to cold and 
darkness, it is the negative, and gases are the 
opposing elements. These gases hold to the 
earth because of their weight headed • to a 
vacuumized space. The heavenly space is not 
a complete vacuum and thereby the air gases 
are attracted to the earth according to their 
weight. 

Science tells us that all things of material 
on the earth contain, more or less, some of these 
gases. Therefore, when Newton's apple fell to 
the earth, the primary and decisive act to fall 
in the direction of the earth's center was due 
to the pull of the gases the apple contained. 
The gases are continually pressing their way to 
the center of the earth, and they influence all 
weight to that decision. 

The Lord with His angelic force has doubt- 
less been creating these planets and organizing 
them into a working combination. for ages back. 



50 The Truth of the Hour. 

Probably building worlds and organizing them 
into a systematic control by natural law is one 
of the great business enterprises of heaven. 

Instead of all planets being held and con- 
trolled by attraction, they are controlled by 
detraction. The law of weight is falling through 
space, and the planets are organized on the laAvs 
of defense. They have no attraction for each 
other. They know nothing of co-operation. 

They are so constructed by different organic 
combinations that they do not aft'ect each other 
by attraction. They travel in a certain course, 
eastv\'ard, by means of weight falling through 
space, and they are protected from each other 
by defensive laws which naturally shift the 
lesser planet. 

When Melchisedec came out with his 
organized band of angels his big job was ten 
planets — the earth, moon, sun, Mars, Jupiter, 
Uranus, Venus, Mercury, Neptune and Saturn. 
There were ten planets to arrange in their order 
of natural law. 

It seems by his long presence on the earth 
after Abraham's day that his interest was 
centered on the direct supervision of the techni- 
calities concerning the earth, and more especially 
after it began to change from its gaseous and 
burning state to that of a cool, solid body. 



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Probably hydrogen gas was in abundance 
around the face of the creating bulk until he 
ordered an abundant manufacture of the heavier 
gases. But, of course, not until the bulk had 
burned to a crust sufficient to begin to cool. In 
the absence of heat, cold naturally exists; there- 
fore, when the fire had consumed the inflam- 
mable properties of the chemical gases the earth 
naturally began to cool and solidify on the outer 
surface. 

As they created the heavier gases, a mixing 
took place, and, of course, the air began to form 
around the face of the ground. Then another 
heating began by the powerfully traveling sun- 
light penetrating the accumulating body of air. 
The force of the sunlight created a friction and 
the greater heat accumulated was within a 
certain radial line of the focus. Thus mobiliza- 
tion of the molecules of oxygen began. Close to 
the face of the ground they would heat, expand 
and become lighter; the cooler molecules above 
would naturally fall and force them upward. 

In the earlier days, when the ground was 
watered by a mist, as brought to light in the 
second chapter of Genesis, w^as probably due to 
a minimum amount of nitrogen and oxygen 
with insufficient quantity, weight, frictiorial 
resistance for heat and mobilization to mix 



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with and liquidate the hydrogen for it to pre- 
cipitate large drops of water, as we now have 
in our rains. 

The ground was watered by a mist; the 
plant seeds were made by the angels according 
to the plans and specifications, and the trees 
were growing in a grand forest; the grass was 
over the face of the ground in a beautiful radi- 
ance of verdant green before they began to carry 
out the plans for the creation of animal life. 

The chemical solutions were begun accord- 
ing to their formulas. The incubators, so to 
speak, w^ere made for the purpose of bringing 
forth little baby animals, fish and fowl; and 
they were in abundance, with probably many of 
the offspring grown, before the preparation for 
the making of Adam. The material production 
took place in consecutive practice similar to the 
inventing. 

The incubators were made, such as were 
needed, and they worked in the order of natural 
law. The eggs were made to hatch the fowl and 
fish, but preceding this much time was con- 
sumed in getting the earth in condition to 
receive the life. The face of the ground was as 
a green field of grass, with it rivers, branches, 
forests ; the animals were roving in freedom and 
luxury on the vegetation ; the fowls were flipping 



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to and fro by wing through the air before the 
chemical solution was prepared for the making 
of Adam. 

The mechanism of the human body and 
mind is due entirely to the knowledge of God 
how to mix the chemical and treat it. After the 
solution had remained in the incubator the right 
length of time the male child was taken out by 
. one of the angels, and when the air struck him 
he began to breathe and thus it was fulfilled: 
"And God breathed into his nostrils the breath 
of life and man became a living soul." 

Adam w^as nourished and taught by the 
angels with more tender care than a real mother 
and father care for their young. He was particu- 
larly educated on all superior natural law, and 
as he grew he became acquained with the animals 
and he named them. 

Many strolls through the forests and over 
the plains were taken by Adam in his boyhood 
days in association with none but the angels. 
They romped with him and were with him when 
he slept and ate. 

The time came when he was grown. His 
youthful passions and ambitions now began to 
take on the steadiness of manhood. He nat- 
urally became conscious of the fact that he was in 
a great big world and surrounded by the angels 



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of God. But with all that he grew uneasy and 
seemingly dissatisfied. As days passed he be- 
came more lonely. Did he love the angels, the 
forests, the plains, river valleys and rolling hills, 
the Garden with its clear streams of pure fresh 
water, pure fresh air, health and vigor at its 
height, multiples of flying fowl free from hurt 
and harm? 

His face would have flushed boyishly, no 
doubt, had the angels so interrogated him. His 
answer would have been in the affirmative, 

but . He would have hesitated and he 

would have turned, so it would suggest his 
thoughts were reaching out for something that 
was lacking. At that moment his sentence 
could not have been finished, but that character- 
istic of appreciation was only beginning in its 
creation, and it could only end with the ''but," 
the sentence to be finished later. The angels 
knew what the boy meant as he grew restless, 
but it was an experience through which he must 
pass in order for the final characteristic to be 
complete in man. They knew all and were only 
waiting for him to become grown and his desire 
for a mate to assert itself to a better depth 
than passion. 

The days passed, and Adam continued with 
his angelic association, wandering here and there. 



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to and fro, with the birds and the beasts, with 
the fishes ; now to eat of the fruits of the garden ; 
now to sleep in the bed prepared to his own taste. 
The day came when he decided. Decided what? 
He decided that Jehovah was right when He 
asserted, It is not good for man to be alone. 
(Gen. 2 : 18.) There w^as only one natural law 
by which this saying could be deeply rooted in 
man, and that was for the first man, Adam, to 
spend the young days mateless. Being mateless, 
the disposition of appreciation was naturally 
created. 

In the nineteenth and twentieth verses of 
the second chapter we read these words: ''Out 
of the ground the Lord God formed every beast 
of the field and every fowl of the air; and 
brought them unto Adam to see what he would 
call them; and whatsoever Adam called every 
living creature, that w^as the name thereof. 

''And Adam gave names to all cattle, and 
to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the 
field ; but for Adam there was not found a help 
meet for him." 

The above two paragraphs show conclu- 
sively that Adam spent an unspecified time 
alone except for the companionship of the 
angels. 



56 The Truth of the Hour. 

After having graduated in all the natural 
law, Adam became lonely. There was no one 
of his person and likeness to share this great 
treasury. Then, one day, he was heard to 
acknowledge with his whole soul that it is not 
right for man to be alone. Finally the day 
came that he failed to return to the camp of 
the angels. They had been watching with due 
appreciation for what would happen and had 
followed him. Through the forest and plains 
he wandered, on and on, until tired and weary 
he lay down to sleep. Then was brought to 
pass: ''And the Lord caused a deep sleep to 
fall upon Adam, and he slept." (Gen. 2 : 21.) 
While he slept, he dreamed of the fairy who 
was to brighten the garden spot of the world 
— a spot which the angels of God were fre- 
quenting, yet to Adam it was not complete 
without the helpmate. This was Adam's dream : 
"And he (the angel) took one of his (Adam's) 
ribs and closed up the flesh thereof. And of 
the rib (the physical seed) which the angel had 
taken from man, made he a woman and brought 
her unto the man." (Gen. 2 :21, 22.) The 
angels made their way back to the camp with 
the seed from the man and placed it in their 
incubator, from which, in the course of time, a 
girl baby was taken. 



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When Adam awoke from his deep sleep he 
was pleased because of the vision, and he knew 
that the angels had decided that the time was 
at hand for the creation of his helpmate. >He 
returned to the Garden of Eden and there con- 
tented himself in the now comparatively few 
and short months that were to pass before the 
little girl babe would be brought forth to become 
his companion. 

The angels educated her with all care, and, 
as the physical seed was taken from Adam 
(typified by the rib), so was also the refinement 
and superresistance of evil taken from him and 
given to her as her foremost trait. 

Finally the happiest day for man came, 
the wedding day of Adam — a day when it 
could truthfully be said that all the world 
rejoiced with a singleness of joy. After the 
ceremony was performed and they were pro- 
nounced man and wife by the representative of 
God, Adam turned to his leaders and said: 
''This is now bone of my bones, flesh of my 
flesh, she shall be called woman because she 
was taken out of man." As though he would 
apologize to the angels before leaving them, he 
continued: ''Therefore shall man leave his 
father and his mother and shall cleave unto 



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his wife, and they two shall be one flesh." 
(Gen. 2 : 23, 24.) 

They had cared for Adam all this time, and 
it was only natural that his sayings be formed 
into a decree as a memorial to his name as long 
as man lasted. 



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CHAPTER V. 

Where Did Cain Get His Wife? 

We may easily imagine that great enthusi- 
asm existed among the angels during these years 
in the capacity of creators, carrying out the plans 
of Jehovah, which were made the first six days 
of creation. When we see that God and the 
angels are busy and are not sitting back on 
some imaginary throne, we can appreciate His 
real existence to a much greater extent. It 
magnifies Him in our minds when we see Him 
as a lawful and systematic God, which is a 
contrast to the popular idea that He created 
everything instantaneously. He and the angels 
having been idle ever since, so to speak. 

Before we try to get the answer as to where 
Cain got his wife, suppose we quote Paul 
in H Timothy 2:5: ''If a man strive for 
masteries, yet he is not crowned, except he 
strive lawfully." We must not try to answer the 
question only from a purely natural law stand- 
point. We should feel that natural law is con- 
clusive evidence. 

There are two scriptural references we must 
note. One is Genesis 4 : 16: ''And Cain went 



60 The Truth of the Hour. 

out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt 
in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden." We 
must remember that the land of Nod was east 
of the Garden of Eden. In speaking of Adam 
when he was exiled from the Garden of Eden, 
Genesis 3 : 24 has this to say: ''So He drove 
out the man: and He placed at the east of the 
Garden of Eden Cherubims and a flaming 
sword which turned every way, to keep the w^ay 
of the tree of life." 

Thus we see that Adam was sent eastward 
from Eden when he w^as exiled. He and Cain 
possibly lived close to each other. ''And Adam 
lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a 
son in his own likeness, after his image; and 
called his name Seth. And the days of Adam, 
after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred 
years, and he begat sons and daughters; and 
all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred 
and thirty years: and he died." (Gen. 5 : 3-5.) 

Long before Cain was necessarily married 
there were plenty of people in the earth among 
whom he could have found a distant relative to 
become his wife. He evidently lived some six 
or eight hundred years; and w^e see from the 
Scriptures that Adam and Eve began to bear 
daughters after Adam was one hundred and 



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thirty years old, and they raised children for 
probably six hundred years. 

Another fair theory of this problem, which 
is supported by the natural law of the case and 
not opposed by the Bible, is the fact that while 
Adam and Eve were the first man and woman 
made by the angels, they probably were not 
the only ones. We have four distinct races in 
the earth — the black, the yellow, the red and 
the white man. It is possible and even probable 
that after Adam and Eve sinned, the angels 
then set to work and put a little coloring into 
their chemical solutions, so to speak, and made 
up the first man and woman of three other 
races. Why not this be the case? The Lord 
says He made all things after their kind. The 
red, the black and the yellow men are after a 
certain kind just the same as the white man. 

It is only fair to suppose that no particular 
mention is made of this latter work in the Bible, 
because of the non-importance, as Adam had 
already sinned. As the character of Adam had 
been colored with sin, so could the angels now 
put coloring in the flesh of others made later. 
The next One to be created with a perfect 
character, called the second Adam, was more 
familiarly named Jesus, the Son of God. 

It is entirely possible and even probable 



62 The Truth of the Hour. 

that the three colored races were in existence 
in Cain's day, the angels creating them shortly 
after the fall of Adam. Thus natural law 
furnishes us with two foundations, either of 
which will allow us to draw our own conclusions 
as to where Cain got his wife. 

The Ten Commandments. 

The ten commandments are an infinite 
chain of basic principle and supreme law. So 
immutable are they that the Saviour once said : 
'Tt is easier for heaven and earth to pass than 
for one title of the law to fail." (Luke 16 : 17.) 
No matter how little we change, deface and 
neglect a law of this kind, we convert it into a 
law of good and evil. We break the chain and 
then the whole becomes weak by the link we 
place therein. 

Even before languages of men were created 
there were ten characteristics of purity that 
were referred to in other languages, probably 
of angels. We have the thought introduced in 
Ezek. 28 : 13. In speaking of the character 
of Satan before he fell, the ten characteristics 
were brought out in the following names: The 
Sardius, Topaz, Diamond, Beryl, Onyx, Jasper, 
Sapphire, Emerald, Carbuncle and Gold. 



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Let me now submit the thought that we 
cannot break law. We may break a chain by 
taking out one of the Hnks. Likewise we cannot 
break law without taking out one Hnk; therefore, 
it is the whole law that is broken. For instance, 
''Thou shalt not steal." If I steal, I have not 
broken that particular law, but have merely 
personified the opposite law: ''Thou shalt 
steal." I have cut in two the ten command- 
ments, and made the whole law no stronger 
than the law^ I weld in. I have broken the 
chain by taking out one of the links. "Thou 
shalt not steal" was taken out and "thou shalt 
steal" was placed there instead. The Apostle 
James recognized this fact when he said: "For 
whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet 
offend in one point, he is guilty of all." (James 
2 : 10.) 

The first four of the ten commandments 
are our duty to the Lord and ourself; the last 
six are our direct duty to man and ourself. 

The law cannot be destroyed, for when it 
is on our hearts it is a personified power to build 
up great character, and when we cast it off of 
our hearts, then we naturally and inevitably 
accept the opposite law to destroy. We cannot 
be without law. There are only two sides, and 
we must either be connected with the infinite 



64 The Truth of the Hour. 

chain of natural law to build up, or with the 
mixed law of good and evil, to tear down 
eventually, if not now. 

If the law does not exist in our hearts unto 
redemption, then it will exist on tables of 
stone unto condemnation. Our person is like 
unto a rented house; when one family moves 
out another occupies. Likewise, when the law 
of good moves out, the law of bad moves in. 
For example, take the first commandment: 
''Thou shalt have no other gods before me." 
Change the noun God to the adjective ''good," 
as a principle at issue in a momentary event 
in life. We know that goodness is a character- 
istic representing a characteristic of God, exactly 
as the Holy Spirit is an angel representing the 
person of God. In plain words, it is only natural 
that the principle of Good says to us every 
moment in life: "Thou shalt have no other 
Good before me. Why? Surely not primarily 
for Good's sake, but for our person's sake. 
Personification of good law does not help the 
law, but it does help the person. The truth of 
the hour will save because it is the error of the 
hour that will destroy. 

It is fair to say that a great majority of 
the people who are acquainted with the ten 
commandments, in words, support them. They 



My Last Call, 65 

acknowledge in word that this is a masterpiece 
of righteous law, but let us ask why one does 
not have greater concern in the effort to really 
live them. There may be several answers to the 
question, but you will probably agree that the 
best answer is in this thought: Since the days 
of the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of 
Eden, man has not wanted to live up to the 
ideals of an infinite chain of natural law further 
than his owm specialties. As Adam and Eve 
chose to live a mixed law, some good and some 
bad, so is it only natural for the descendants to 
wish to do the same thing. Probably the world 
has no condition that has testified more definitely 
and continuously to the truthfulness of the prin- 
ciple on which Adam and Eve fell, namely, 
''The knowledge of Good and Evil." 



66 The Truth of the Hour. 

CHAPTER VI. 
The Churches With the Adamic Nature. 

We will now submit a few thoughts on 
Christianity and religion. Do the churches 
believe in Christianity? Immediately our own 
mental ears would hear this reply: "There are 
lots of religious folks in the churches." Yes, 
we will all agree to that, but we cannot agree 
on the point that religion is always Christianity. 
It is easy for us to use the word Christ, but it 
is likely to be used in vain. We can use His 
name in vain religiously as well as in profanity. 

Christianity can be interpreted as a religion, 
but religion cannot always rightfully be inter- 
preted Christianity. Christianity is to live the 
infinite natural law, which can be done by one 
and all who will repent of sin and accept the name 
of Jesus through the baptism of the Holy Spirit, 
as is plainly brought to view in the closing 
chapters of this book. 

A will-worship is usually displayed by a long 
face and outward signs of piousness. Such wor- 
shipers usually cling more closely to a doctrine 
founded on a law of good and evil compiled by 
some theorist, clergyman or philosopher and 



My Last Call 67 

passed on by some convention of clergy or lay- 
men. They cling close to a doctrine and limit 
the meaning of the Bible to the limit of their 
doctrine. They place their creed as a criterion 
for the souls of men regardless of whether or not 
the evil of their doctrine or creed is later made 
plainly visible. 

The mixture of good and bad law was first 
mentioned by the Lord in His instructions to 
Adam about the time they were given their 
diploma on natural law from the high school of 
the angels and the Eden estate was delivered 
to them. The Lord was visiting the camp of 
the angels and w^as particular to warn Adam 
and Eve not to add anything to their minds 
that had any taint of unnatural law. But the 
fruit of the tree of knowledge, of good and evil, 
thou shalt not partake of it; for in the day 
that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. 
(Gen. 2:17.) The knowledge of good and evil is 
nothing more or less than a constitution that is 
built up on a combination of natural and un- 
natural law^s. 

In Genesis 2:9 we read this scripture: 
And out of the ground made the Lord to grow 
every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and for 
food; the tree of life also in the midst of the 
garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and 



68 The Truth of the Hour, 

evil. The question is asked by the skeptical 
man, ''Why did God place the tree of life there 
as well as the tree of knowledge of good and 
evil? Why did He not leave the latter tree out 
of the garden?" The answer, as has already 
been set forth, in brief is this: The tree of life 
(immortality) at that time was education on the 
infinite chain of natural law, of which the ten 
commandments is a concrete sample. The tree 
of knowledge of good and evil is that infinite 
chain broken, one or more of its fundamental 
principles extracted. For instance, the ten com- 
mandments, minus one commandment, is ''the 
tree of knowledge of good and evil." It is the 
chain broken. 

The Temptation of Eve. 

A good lesson on the knowledge of good and 
evil can be had by briefly reviewing the tempta- 
tion of Eve. She was tempted on the doctrine 
of the immortality of the soul. The immortality 
of the soul is really truth. It belongs to a natural 
law. Adam and Eve were then immortal. They 
were pure and therefore immortal. They had 
not partaken of anything to make them mortal. 
If they should partake of the evil and become 
subject to mortality, then there must be a death 
of the soul, saith the Lord. By the death of 



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the soul immortality would then be lost to man. 
But the Lord planned for immortality not to be 
lost forever by setting aside a judgment day. 
If man should partake of the mixed good and evil 
and thereby lose his immortality, God would 
judge the world, and after that judgment day, 
would re-establish immortality. 

The present and popular theory on the im- 
mortality of the soul is as old as the day when 
Satan entered into the argument with Eve, but 
it is the unnatural law side of the question. It 
belongs to the system of the law with the missing 
link and the thing which Adam and Eve were 
warned not to partake of. For a man's soul to 
leave his body and ascend into heaven, or to 
descend into some hell or purgatory, or any 
other place of abode and refuge, to there live 
and enjoy the five senses of man, is an absolute 
impossibility from a natural law standpoint, 
supported by the fact that it is impossible for 
God to lie. Even though God was able to 
create the heavens and the earth, He was not 
able to make such a thing possible, since He 
had already made the statement: ''The soul 
that sinneth it shall die." (Ezek. 18 : 4.) 

The immortality believers quote from the 
New Testament to support their belief, but 
that is to be expected, for it is hardly probable 



70 The Truth of the Hour, 

that such a subject could be expounded so exten- ^ 
sively in the Bible and there not be a statement ' 
that, if taken alone, would not apparently sup- 
port their theory. In fact, our subject is ''law 
of good and evil," and it is to be expected that 
they have some good points of argument, but 
even a measure of defense does not seem to 
stand in this case. While Scripture is cited to 
support the immortality of the soul, yet a Bible 
student cannot see that the ones cited support 
their theory in the least, but, to the contrary, 
he sees denunciation of it. 

Note these words of the Saviour, ''Where 
the worm dieth not, the fire is not quenched." 
That statement cannot support eternal hell 
(immortality) in the face of the following: 
"They shall be burned up ... . they shall be 
destroyed . . . they shall be ashes beneath the 
soles of the righteous' feet .... they shall be 
burned root and branch." (Mai. 4 : 1-3.) "For 
behold, I create new heavens, and a new earth; 
and the former shall not be remembered, nor 
come into mind." (Isa. 65 : 17.) Believing this 
Scripture and knowing that there are many 
more on the subject, we can easily see that the 
statement of the Saviour is not intended to 
mean the eternal punishing of the wicked. They 
are in direct support of the complete destruction. 



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For example, ''they shall be destroyed" and the 
*Vhere the worm dieth not, the fire is not 
' quenched," the latter supports the former. But 
when the wicked is burned up and destroyed, 
which will take place in the course of a few 
moments according to the time of fire, the fire 
will not be quenched and will naturally die out. 

Take another statement: ''These shall go 
away into everlasting punishment." When the 
people are destroyed forever, the punishment is 
everlasting, but it is not everlasting punishing. 
Everlasting punishing would be opposite to 
destroyed, but everlasting punishment is its 
support. "And the smoke of their torment 
ascended up forever and ever; and they have 
no rest day nor night, who worship the beast 
and his image, and whosoever receiveth the 
mark of his name." (Rev. 14 : 11.) This 
punishing takes place in this life during the 
prosecution of the beast for exalting himself to 
the position of a god. As long as they have 
life they will suffer day and night, but the 
smoke (recollection) will get further and further 
from the righteous after the wicked are dead. 

The theory that a man is dead while he 
is alive, or alive while he is dead, is a lie within 
itself. It is claimed that the body dies, but that 
the soul is immortal. God did not mention the 



72 The Truth of the Hour. 

body; He particularly mentions the soul. If 
God had said that the body would die, then it 
seems there would be a little better chance for 
argument or misunderstanding in that respect. 
As both parties to the controversy are using the 
word soul, it is positive evidence that there is 
deliberate opposition. 

Christ came to give immortality, but not 
to make God's words false. If Christ had come 
to give immortality in this respect, then He 
would have set aside God's verdict. If the man 
does not die and the soul with its five senses 
lives on and on in some heaven, hell or purga- 
tory, then God's statement has been set aside 
as false or non-essential. If one is in heaven or 
hell while the body is in the grave, he is both 
dead and alive, or neither dead nor alive. There 
seems to be a confusion that no one understands. 

The human body is evidently a big part of 
the man; yes, we can safely say that the body 
is fully one-third of the man, the soul and 
spirit being the two-thirds. Man is a being 
with power, and we may say that there is no 
operative body short of three fundamental prin- 
ciples — positive, negative and neutral. Take 
aw^ay the negative and the positive, and neutral 
will fail to produce power; take either one and 
the remaining two will fail to operate to the 



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desired end. Man exists on exactly similar 
mechanical basis — the body, the soul and the 
spirit. His soul is his moral, the spirit the 
mental direction and energy; neither of them 
can live (exist) without a body. 

God has promised through Christ that He 
will quicken our present bodies and resurrect 
them from the dead after a certain day called 
the judgment day. This promise is to be ful- 
filled only after the judgment, which is to take 
place in the closing days of the earth's present 
habitation and government. 

A nation exists on exactly the similar me- 
chanical basis. Commerce is its spirit; the 
church is its soul ; and labor is its body. Minus 
either one of the three, a nation must fall. 

Heaven is organized on the similar mechani- 
cal basis, Jehovah, Christ and the Holy Spirit. 
Without this mechanical formation God could 
never have carried out His plans to a successful 
termination. He is omnipotence and omni- 
presence by means of just such an effective 
organization. As it is impossible for God to 
carry on His work without this imperative 
organization, so is it just as impossible for a 
man's soul to be living while his body is dead 
and in his grave. 

Again, note this point: Christ came to 



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give eternal life. Now, is it the fact that He 
came to give the unbeliever eternal life? If the 
sinner already had eternal life, then why should 
Christ come to give something that he already 
had? But you agree with me that He came to 
give eternal life? Yes. Then, if I be a sinner, 
unrepentant, lower than the lowest, cast down 
into an eternal hell to suffer the pangs of a 
despised and perjured soul, forever and forever, 
according to the theory, have I not eternal life? 
The fact that I am suffering in a hell does not 
alter the fact that I am living forever, does it? No. 
Does Christ so despise a sinner that He would 
come to this earth and give him eternal life just 
to see him suffer throughout all ages, world 
without end? We answer, no. We believe that 
such a revenge was far from the mind of such a 
personage as we know Christ to be. 

The unbeliever already has death; God 
has declared it to exist by virtue of a broken 
law. Christ came to give him a chance for eter- 
nal life, and with that life are all the blessings 
that heaven has to offer. If the sinner refuses 
that great offer, refuses to believe, then his only 
portion is eternal death, death forever. The 
very purpose of the mission of Christ to the 
earth and His death on the cross openly refutes 



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the doctrine of the immortaUty of the soul and 
an eternal punishing for the sinner. 

It is remarkable within itself to note that 
the churches are almost unanimous in their belief 
in the immortality of the soul and eternal pun- 
ishing of the wicked. There are many good 
principles in their creeds and doctrines, but this 
little leaven leaveneth the whole lump; the 
little Satanic lie promoted in the Garden of Eden 
had to become rooted and grounded in them as 
one of their foremost principles. ''Adam, where 
art thou?" "Here am I, Lord." "What hast 

thou done?" "Nothing, Lord, only o— n— 1— y 

just believed Satan instead of you." We have 
just believed Satan's argument regarding the 
immortality of the soul. 

The Law of Rest on the Sabbath Day. 

As there are two sides to all questions, there 
are two very interesting and even vital views 
about the Sabbath day and a day of rest. Vir- 
tually they mean the same thing, but there is 
evidence that there are two fundamental prin- 
ciples connected with the differences of opinion 
of the Sabbath question. If we want to know 
a thing, we must examine it from the natural 
law that dates back to its creation. But we 
must first establish the fact that it is the natural 



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demand of the physical that created the demand 
for the Sabbath, or the rest day. Thus, in the 
beginning we have natural law the reason for a 
created Sabbath. Physical humanity, for their 
health's sake, prosperity, etc., must rest one 
day in seven. 

Since the people have acknowledged natural 
law to the extent of selecting a rest day, the 
question arises, which day shall be selected? 
If from natural law we select a day of rest, why 
not let the same natural law decide which day 
to rest? Of course, to decide this it will be 
necessary to refer to rceation, to "play-like" we 
are back at creation and on the first day of the 
week. 

If we have just been instantaneously 
created, we cannot argue that we need rest. 
We will work with eagerness on the first day 
of the week. The second likewise. Then the 
third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth. But on 
this sixth day we acknowledge that we are weary 
and need rest. Thus the seventh-day Sabbath 
is naturally established. 

How different today! Far down thousands 
of years in the stream of time we find ourselves 
still with an accurate record of the weekly cycle, 
but something is wrong. Some look in surprise 
when they see the whole world keeping the first 



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day of the week for a Sabbath. The natural 
Sabbath would be the last day of the week, and 
the most unnatural Sabbath we could select is 
the first day of the week. We cling closely to 
the natural law in determining the necessity of 
a Sabbath day, but with deaf ears and blind 
eyes and hard hearts condemn natural law when 
it tells us which day to keep as the Sabbath. 
While the first day of the week immediately 
follows the last, by starting our investigation at 
creation, we find we are just as far from the 
natural law as we could be. 

The God of heaven stands unmoved on 
natural law, never using it in one case and un- 
natural law in another. If He would let natural 
law tell Him that He needed rest, He would also 
take advice from the same law as on which day 
to rest. Man has less excuse for resting on the 
first day of the week than on any other he may 
select. Natural law tells him that he needs a 
rest, and we may acknowledge that accidentally 
he missed just which day it should be. But 
how does it come that he vSO far missed it, the 
farthest that he could? It shows conclusively 
that there has been a rebellion. Some master- 
human has selected another God. Someone has 
rebelled against the God of natural law. Some- 



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one has rebelled against the first commandment : 
**Thou shalt have no other gods before me/' 

Sunday is the proper day for the worldly 
man who merely wishes to keep one day in 
seven. It is all right for a worldly nation that 
desires to live the natural physical law of rest 
only. It is as well to keep one day as another 
when we are not reaching out into the other 
world, but if we are expecting to be with those 
who are translated and join with those who 
reign with Christ in the new earth, we had better 
consider the importance of getting in harmony 
with the Jehovah of creation and Christ, who 
rigidly lived and upheld that law. Not only 
did He live that law, but He died to uphold its 
heavenly constitutionality. If only the worldly 
men and the worldly nations are keeping that 
first day for a Sabbath, we would not pause in 
amazement, but the churches, the soul of the 
nation, are keeping it. Why do they do this? 
It is because they do not believe ''The soul that 
sinneth, it shall die." They believe that they 
go immediately to heaven at death, and they 
further believe that all out of their class will 
burn forever and ever in an eternal hell. Not 
only is their God a respecter of persons, but one 
who has no end and satisfaction to His 
vengeance. 



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Whoever the Author of Sunday rest may be, 
he came on the scene of action, evidently, since 
creation. Some great man who had power and 
influence over the people has been won by the 
unnatural law representative. Primarily through 
him, and secondarily through his colleagues, and 
thirdly through his constituency, this great un- 
natural law representative has been able to hold 
the soul of the nations to a broken chain of 
natural law. 

The Lord, the Saviour, the Apostles, nor 
any of the other biblical characters, have ever 
kept the Sunday for the Sabbath. The first 
day of the week is mentioned eight times in the 
New Testament, and each time it has connec- 
tion with some kind of work in traveling or 
hiding from the persecuting Jews, etc. 

If the churches are going to keep the Sab- 
bath day, why not keep the last day of the 
week? No church, unless it has the disposition 
to serve other gods, would rest the first day of 
the week. God worked the first day and rested 
the seventh ; the Saviour worked the first day 
and rested the seventh, and even rose the first 
day and began His new ministry on the first 
day. Since they all rested the last day of the 
week, and none of them hinted at a command 
or a request to observe any other day but the 



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seventh as a Sabbath, that fact remains that all 
people converted to the religion of Christ will 
eventually, if not now, rest the seventh day of 
the week. The acts of the churches are conclu- 
sive evidence that the souls of the nations still 
believe in the Adamic doctrine, ''the law of 
good and evil," the broken and inferior chain. 

It is good to rest one day in seven, for the 
body needs physical rest from its labor, which 
is obedience to the natural temporal law. But 
if we wish to serve in connection with the eternal 
law and serve the voice of God of Heaven, we 
had better select the one He selected ; not only 
this, but, likewise, the one He commanded us to 
select, namely, Saturday, the seventh day of the 
week. 



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CHAPTER VII. 

Governments Are Indorsing the Mixed 
Laws of Good and Evil. 

We will now discuss the government. The 
government is made up of all classes of people. 
As the churches do not believe in the infinite 
chain of eternal law, so do we find the govern- 
ment will not contend for the infinite temporal 
law. We are all Adamic in belief and nature. 
While some claim to be changed, to have been 
converted into the character of God, yet there 
is that same resemblance of good and evil law 
in them. 

Co-operation is the topic today in educa- 
tion, and one of the leading fads in politics. 
Co-operation, like all other destroying law king- 
doms, has its good qualities, but also, unques- 
tionably, has its evil qualities. Thus it becomes 
a part of the Satanic education. It is a word 
that is not used in the Bible. There was no 
use for it back in creation. 

It is best to define the word before we enter 
into the discussion of its peculiar evil. First, I 
shall say that it should never be used by 
Christian teachers, as there are other words 



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that will express their desired thought and con- 
vey their meaning without upholding such an 
evil law kingdom. For conveying the thought 
we usually mean to convey by the term co-opera- 
tion, the New Testament uses the following: 
''help," ''helps" and "governments." We are 
laborers together or workers together with Him. 

There is an evil brought forth under co- 
operation that Satan did not desire to introduce 
until the last days of the conflict. One supposes 
that co-operation means all working together, 
but this is where they are .deceived. In the 
government of industry, competition and co- 
operation are two kingdoms of law at war. 
Competition is a natural law kingdom. We 
know this to be true by referring to the origin 
of commerce and labor, right back to its baby- 
hood at the creation of the thing. 

Natural law comes on the scene of action 
right with the thing to which it pertains. Un- 
natural law begins to appear later, with the 
express purpose of tearing down that which the 
natural law builds up. Rarely does it come 
open and above board. There is hardly such 
a thing as an infinite chain of unnatural law 
because it is too destructive, but the unnatural 
law system is built of good and evil. The con- 
densed fact is, one or more of the fundamental 



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laws extracted from the infinite chain of natural 
laws converts that infinite chain into a most 
efficient weapon for the evil lawmaster. Conse- 
quently, co-operation is just such a thing. Com- 
petition does help all and naturally takes care 
of the unsuspecting citizens, even to the develop- 
ing of thrift and individuality, but co-operation 
works for evil in the end. 

Co-operation can be easily recognized as an 
evil movement, as its personnel claims it neces- 
sary to co-operate as the progress of time de- 
mands the change of law to be applied. This 
is not a reason. It is merely an excuse. Laws 
that bring a thing in and build it to its utmost 
capacity will evidently maintain it. 

Competition is righteousness and knowl- 
edge. It is the last word in goodness to your- 
self, to your people, and the depth of patriotic 
love for the nation. Co-operation is a variance; 
it is concealed hatred; it is final destruction. 
It is the greatest weapon in the hands of the 
master of evils, who is the author of the law of 
mixed good and evil. 

If we will take the veil of premature con- 
clusion from our eyes and consider what co- 
operative commerce and co-operative labor are 
doing for this Nation alone, we can readily see 
the truth of the former statement. It cannot be 



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intelligently disputed that the two have stoleix 
the power of this Government. The liberal 
principles of democracy, yearning to the depths 
of the souls of its personnel, that all men may be 
given a free hand in self-government, yet they 
take advantage through the evils of co-operation 
and make a government of their own, and there- 
by intrude on the leniency of democracy. 

The Congress of the United States has 
tried to stop the evil spirit of commerce by 
the Clayton bill. They tried to prevent the 
conspiracies and agreements to restrain the trade 
by the murder of competition. But Congress 
has failed in its purpose, because the restraint 
of trade that exists by varied co-operations work- 
ing in combination, and monopolistic policies 
were encouraged to originate and are main- 
tained by the power of the public education on 
co-operation. 

Labor organizations were forced in by a 
condition created by co-operative commerce. 
The cases are rare where an actual agreement 
exists for mutual protection, but it is all done 
by the public being educated to co-operate. 
After the public is once educated that co-opera- 
tion is right, then it is hard to establish a 
criminal case of hoarding up and monopolizing 
the wealth. To offest such*an evil condition, it is 



My Last Call 85 

only natural that labor should organize and 
monopolize the labor of the Nation. 

There is no line by which the public senti- 
ment may be limited. There is no stopping 
place for such education, and we are all scien- 
tifically woven together, direct or indirect, to 
the full support of co-operation, which restrains 
trade, distributes favors; which curtails freedom, 
suppresses individuality, changes the channels 
of government, increases poverty and destroys 
competition and thrift. 

THE SONG OF CO-OPERATION, 

Our country has risen to a plane of wealth, 

Our names in foreign fame, 
Our children soar to giants of health, 

Our character sinks in shame. 

When love for money has arrived at the gate, 

To conquer regard for the brother; 
Causing competitors to co-operate, 

Regardless of cost to the other. 

Regardless of cost, co-operative labor 

Will stand abreast in the day. 
Demand big pay and grant no favor 

To those who don't see their way. 

Regardless of cost, our business men 

Will soar to a plane so unjust, 
To calmly agree in this land of the free, 

To kill competition with the sword of the trust. 

Regardless of cost, our legislative halls 

Are surrounded by political men 
With blinded minds from darkness of the day. 

Shadowed by a cloud of co-operating sin. 



86 The Truth of the Hour. 

Competitive commerce and competitive 
labor are two master-systems to maintain a 
nation, but they can only exist by support of 
a real government. Co-operative commerce and 
co-operative labor are two master-systems to 
bleed and sap a nation. In union there is 
strength, but co-operation destroys unionism 
and builds factions. It is a fact beyond any 
question that even our greatest and best edu- 
cated men will reject a progressive principle 
unless a faction reasonably strong will endorse 
it. They seem to be educated that some faction 
should endorse things before they are right. ^^A 
principle becomes right through endorsement 
of factions." 

A man with individuality and a competitive 
spirit will plunge headlong to the support of a 
righteous principle, and refuse to be tied hand 
and foot to await the action of some committee, 
or decision in regular form, by some faction. 

There are four governments recognized by 
the Lord. First, the heavenly government; 
second, home circle; third, self-control; fourth, 
political governments. When the home govern- 
ment and self-control partially failed, a political 
government became necessary; and when it 
fails and is controlled by factionalism, then all 
has failed. 



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It IS the competitive spirit that builds 
nations. It was the competitive Spirit of Christ 
which turned the heart of the heathen from 
paganism to Hght. It was the competitive 
spirit in every reform movement, and likewise 
every invention, that has helped the world 
mechanically, and to which we owe the good 
and prosperity of the world. 

When we compete we help everybody 
righteously, but when we co-operate we rise in 
factions, follow fads, dissimilate and indulge 
viciously in the surplus wealth and on demo- 
cratic principles that the competitive thinkers 
and workers reveal and produce. 

The individual and competitive thinker is 
rapidly being forced into the co-operative fac- 
tional spirit, and thereby the governments are 
falling to the dictations of the factions. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 

''When They Cry Peace and Safety, Then 
Sudden Destruction Cometh, as Travail 
Upon a Woman, and They Shall Not 
Escape." 

The words of the Apostle Paul should ring 
in our ears with some effective results. ''For 
yourselves know perfectly that the day of the 
Lord so cometh, as a thief in the night. For 
when they shall say, peace and safety, then 
sudden destruction cometh upon them, as tra- 
vail upon a woman with child (national inter- 
nal eruption), and they shall not escape." 
(I Thes. 3 : 2, 3.) 

What condition could arise in the world to 
make that prophecy possible to be fulfilled? 
None but the spirit of co-operation. 

Universalism is termed in the Scriptures as 
a heast. The method and principles, as set forth 
by Christ, is the only way of universalism; 
therefore, the conceit of man to think that he 
can organize the universe, which is contrary to 
the nature of the things being organized, without 
regeneration through the Holy Spirit of God, is 
such a monster in the eyes of God that the 
Scriptures call it a beast. 



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Co-operation is the great seat on which 
man's universalism tries to sit. It is a shaky 
seat. It has no law on which to stand; nothing 
but the law of factionalism, which is a direct 
contrast to universalism. In fact, universalism 
is a mock, unless it is real, and it cannot be 
real unless we are all of the same nature. 

Other false spirits exist, but none has the 
power of destruction like that of co-operation, 
whose factions will rise and destroy at a time 
when peace is felt to be most sure. 

President Wilson is a man w^hose democratic 
ideas are too big for the world. As Mexico rose 
and slew Madero and his big heart of freedom, 
so will the world intrude on democracy. But 
what will America do? Those who know the 
prophetical Scriptures can easily look into the 
future, and tell exactly the part she is going to 
play in this w^orld of rapidly changing events. 
''These are the American principles, American 
politics. We stand for no others. And they 
are also the principles and politics of forward- 
looking men and w^omen everywhere, of every 
modern nation, of every enlightened community. 
They are the principles of mankind and must 
prevail." 

We well know that Revelation tells us that 
the lamb should come up out of the earth and 



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speak as a dragon. The lamb we understand 
to be the United States, because she is the only 
nation that came up out of the earth. That is, 
she was discovered a new body of land practically 
not inhabited, only by the savages. She speaks 
as a dragon, meaning, first, with authority and 
leadership; second, along the laws of good and 
evil, which is only the same as that of the 
character of man, but turned loose in demo- 
cratic freedom, with the idea that all the world 
can become a universal brotherhood. 

Why are these principles the principles of 
forward-looking men and women everywhere? 
The answer is simple. The democratic principle 
stands for the freedom of its people. In plain 
words, that is one of the principles of Christian- 
ity, but Christianity in part is not Christianity 
in whole. Christianity in part is Adam's nature 
exactly. 

The point is this: It is impractical to turn 
the Adamic nature loose in democratic freedom. 
Especially is this so in universalism, because the 
natures of men are so different. There are so 
many forms of nature built on good and evil. 

The people of the world are going to make 
the democratic ideas a farce by mere co-operating 
factions. They are going to take full revenge 
on democracy for the many days they have been 



My Last Call. 91 

kept in obedience by the monarchies. The dis- 
position of man is going to show itself in its 
inappreciation of freedom. 

The following is a quotation from our 
President's speech in his address to the joint 
session of the United States Congress, January 
23, 1917: ''I have sought this opportunity to 
address you because I thought I owed it to you, 
as the counsel and associate with me in the 
final determination of the International obliga- 
tions, to disclose to you without reserve the 
thought and purpose that have been taking form 
in my mind in regard to the duty of our Govern- 
ment in the days to come, when it will be neces- 
sary to lay fresh and open a new plan for the 
foundation of the nations (co-operation of 
nations). 

''It is inconceivable that the people of the 
United States should play no part in that great 
enterprise. To take part in such a service will 
be the opportunity for which they have sought 
to prepare themselves by the very principles 
and purposes of their policy and the improved 
practices of their Government, ever since the 
days when they set up a new nation in the high 
and honorable hope that it might in all that it 
was and did show mankind the way to liberty. 

"They cannot with honor withhold the 



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service to which they are now about to be 
challenged. They do not wish to withhold it. 
But they owe it to thenivSelves and to the other 
nations to state the conditions under which they 
feel free to render it. 

''That service is nothing less than this, to 
add their authority and their powder to the 
authority and force of the other nations, to 
guarantee peace and justice throughout the 
world. Such a settlement cannot be long post- 
poned. It is right that before it comes this 
Government should frankly formulate the con- 
ditions upon which it would feel justified in ask- 
ing our" people to approve its formal and solemn 
adherence to a league of peace." 



League of Peace. 

{Co-operation.) 

Here we have it. This is the great point 
that the mind of humanity is planning to reach. 
Universalism via co-operation. 

While the nations are shaping themselves 
to form a league of peace there are other schemes 
under way that w^ill overthrow the great good 
that is intended and sought with such seeming 
interest. 



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Let us not fail to notice another point is 
being emphasized during the formation of the 
league of peace; namely, one nation must not 
interfere with the internal affairs of another. 
While the nations are planning to head off the 
evils of war, the education of man is so shaping 
itself that the overthrow may be accomplished 
by a method overlooked. 

We have another very noticeable condition 
that suggests to our minds a serious situation. 
It is the interpretation of the statesman's duty 
in the government. An individual is not a 
governor, but as soon as he is elected to office, 
he becomes a member of a governing body. He 
is not a servant, only to the extent as proper 
governing can be interpreted as being service. 
As far as our representatives being a servant to 
do the commandments as handed to them by 
the factional leaders, is an extreme error. 

A representative government is doubtless 
the best government ever established; if, how- 
ever, the word government is not weakened by 
the representative. 

Representatives in this day seem to be try- 
ing to bring local factionalism into the govern- 
ment. Instead of immediately being converted 
from individual life to that of a strong member 
of a governing body, to make and enforce laws 



94 The Truth of the Hour, 

to protect the individual and competitive spirit 
of man, he takes the rival differences naturally 
brought about by competition and tries to 
become a serviceable arbitrator and make laws 
to reconcile differences by co-operation. No 
greater erroneous fad and deceptive spirit ever 
appeared before men. Because the rival dif- 
ferences created by competitors is the funda- 
mental progressive spirit of a nation, it is also 
the trial, prosecution and conviction of the 
wasteful, the sluggard and the profiteer. 

When we consider it from a natural law 
standpoint, we can understand that the govern- 
ment is not a servant of the people unless it 
really does govern them; unless its representa- 
tives really look after the nation through pro- 
tection of the individual and not by co-operating 
with factionalism. 

The greatest and most essential duty of 
the government is to keep co-operating factions 
from infringements on competition. If competi- 
tion is protected by the government, it will do 
more than all the laws possible in eft'ort to regu- 
late co-operating factions. 

A governor on an engine is to regulate it and 
keep it running smoothly. It is not a servant of 
the engine, but a governor. The engine sup- 
ports it, yet it must tell the engine how fast or 



My Last Call 95 

slow it must run. Therefore, a government is 
not a servant of the people unless it really does 
govern them. It does the people a service by 
holding them in practical unison. 

We would not need a government unless 
some of us were ungovernable, or so elastic in 
our views that we cannot appreciate the rights 
of others. If we all knew how and would live 
exactly up to the dividing line of our liberty 
and the neighbor's rights, we would not need a 
government. 

A government is merely a combination of 
men, selected by us, to decide for us, the dividing 
line of one person's liberty and the other person's 
rights. We originally had just such a govern- 
ment, but our people are allowing themselves to 
become more dissatisfied with the government. 
Our representatives are elected to office for 
but short terms, yet we are usually dissatis- 
fied with them before their terms expire, and 
we are catering more and more to the fac- 
tional leader. 

The Woman, the Woman. 

Not in the history of the world have we 
known the women to serve so restlessly and 
attempt to shift themselves out of their robes 



96 The Truth of the Hour. 

of refinement and tenderness to step so boldly 
into the masculine shoe. 

Man is the most strong-headed of all the 
creatures invented by the Lord. He is the 
hardest to control of any invention the worlds 
have known, and the Lord knew he would be. 
Even the planets will obey natural law with far 
more accuracy. Everything has some control- 
ling or holding element. The locomotive can 
start the train, but it is not the practical way 
to stop that train. A political ambition can 
start a man, but it takes a wo-man to stop him. 
Most anything can draw him away, but it takes 
the wo-man to bring him back. The woman is 
the holding element for the man, but she must 
hold him in the manner that the natural law 
prescribes. She must work according to the 
nature of her calling. 

When Adam was overtaken by the angels 
under Melchisedec after he had departed from 
the angels' camp, he was deprived of retaining 
any part or trait of the tender nature, and thus 
making him solely a masculine or one-way 
headstrong being. But the refined and tender 
characteristic was taken and given to the 
woman. 

There was something belonging to the 
character of man that must be given to the 



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woman to make her a natural holding influence 
of extraordinary and lasting power. The two 
traits of character must be in two people so as 
to make them operative in counter balance. 
The character of man is not complete within 
one person; it must have the woman to be 
complete. A few Scripture references will bear 
this out. The first citation is found in the 
fourth commandment, which is probably looked 
upon by some as being a mere oversight or 
coincidence. In this commandment everybody 
but the wife is told to keep the Sabbath. The 
reason the wife is not named is because the man 
and wife are considered as one. 

Adam recognized the inseparableness of 
the man from the wife when he said: ''There- 
fore shall a man leave his father and his mother, 
and shall cleave unto the wife, and they shall 
be one flesh." (Gen. 2 : 24.) 

The Apostle Paul recognized the man and 
wife were inseparable: ''If any brother hath a 
wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to 
dwell with him, let him not put her away. And 
the woman which hath a husband which believeth 
not, and he be pleased to dwell with her, let her 
not leave him. For the unbelieving husband is 
sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife 
is sanctified by the husband; else were your 



98 The Truth of the Hour, 

children unclean; but now are they holy/' 
(I Cor. 7 : 12-14.) 

Last I mention is the broad assertion of 
Paul in Eph. 5 : 23, in which he gives the 
husband and wife the same divine union as 
Christ has with the church: ''For the husband 
is head of the wife, even as Christ is head of 
the church." The foregoing thoughts are pre- 
sented to show that the character of man is 
incomplete without the unison of the character 
of the woman; but this thought we must also 
not overlook: they must each perform in their 
own capacity. 

He has that domineering or political char- 
acteristic that the woman naturally has not. 
She is that part of the head of the union which 
maintains the inoffensive or sub-dominant by 
her consecration, while he has that dominant 
characteristic for the benefit of organization. 

It is the natural consequence for the woman 
to have the primary legislation and execution 
of law, but, of course, it is in the minor state. 
Having the primary work in the formation of 
character naturally sets her in the highest and 
most responsible position in producing and 
maintaining governments (nations). But does 
this mean that she should go out into politics? 



My Last Call 99 

The question is answered in the negative suffi- 
ciently by the name, wo-man. 

Everything in the world has its own work, 
and when each and everything does its own 
work, it will find its hands full. The masculine 
has something to do. Some part belongs to him. 
It is that part where it takes power by organiza- 
tion. His organization will naturally carry with 
it that political taint of which the natural 
woman is not subject. 

She is naturally the diplomatic master of 
her calling, and does not need to create political 
traits to discharge her duty. She is the natural 
master of her husband and children without 

\ political intrigue, which stands open to say that 
she is the master of all, as the world's national 

I foundations are built by the multiples of hus- 
bands and children. And she is the master of 
all at home without going out into a secondary 

j organization. 

I The woman builds a little nation of her own, 

but the man builds his government by organizing 
consent and agreement. It is the spoiled child— 
the spoiled, selfish grown-ups— that mothers 
have failed to control and make a hundred per 
cent efficient, that the man has to control with 
his government. 



100 The Truth of the Hour. 

The Nation-Wide Hunt for the Bad Boy. 

The Boys' Brotherhood Republic has been 
looking for the worst boy in the United States. 
They do not want to put him in a reform school 
or make him a total depravity exhibit. They 
want to prove that by normal, sensible methods 
he can be turned into a good and useful citizen. 

The above words have been a frequent sight 
in the editorials of the press of the Nation during 
the hunt for this bad boy. They wanted a boy 
one hundred per cent bad, but he could not be 
found. They finally found the worst boy the 
Nation could produce, and he was only eighty- 
seven per cent bad. What does this prove? It 
proves beyond question of doubt two things: 
First, there is no human character but what has 
some principles of good character. Second, it 
proves that the woman is failing in her calling. 

The press editorials declare that the Boys' 
Brotherhood Republic wants to prove that 
''normal, sensible methods" can make that boy 
a good citizen. Who above all else are sup- 
posed to have the normal, sensible method ap- 
plicable to the minor? The answer is, undoubt- 
edly, the woman. If the boy is falling short of 
being a good citizen, then there is none to blame 
but the mother of that boy. There are many 



My Last Call, 101 

bad boys in our Nation today. There are 
many bad boys who have grown to be men and 
are still bad, all due to the fact that the "normal, 
sensible methods" were not applied in their 
youth. 

Where the young man or woman reaches 
out and begins to embrace the world with their 
ears dull of hearing and fail to manifest by 
their conduct that they were reared in a home 
where the ''normal, sensible methods" w^ere used, 
it is then that some sort of government, organized 
and maintained by some sort of masculine vigor, 
is necessary in order to discipline those persons 
who have retained their childhood disobedience. 

All high and moderately educated humanity 
surely understands to a large degree the femi- 
nine trait and calling; but even so, it seems that 
we are compelled to acknowledge that our 
national mind is too finite in this hour of rush 
to appreciate the necessity of preserving this 
great natural and powerful characteristic be- 
longing only to the woman. Men are compelled 
to organize a great company, ''The Boys' 
Brotherhood Republic," at a great expense, just 
to re-establish a simple home principle to defeat 
an evil, which to the state turns out to be of 
major importance. 



102 The Truth of the Hour, 

The normal, sensible method of controlling 
a child is the duty of a woman. Natural law- 
does not tell her to rush into politics and head 
off the evil boy after he becomes a man, but 
does say to her to hold the man. Hold him down 
by that method which to her is easy — a normal, 
sensible method at her command at any hour. 

There are a few women in our Nation who 
are crying for their neutral position to be pre- 
served, and how utterly the men fail when they 
do not support them to the uttermost. 



My Last Call 103 

CHAPTER IX. 

suffragetism the effect and not the 
Cause. 

The women are falling from their high 
calling. They are advocating more and more 
a departure from their neutral position, and 
their rush into politics is only an unconscious 
acknowledgment of their failing condition. 

It is characteristic of the Adamic nature, 
and thereby only natural for us to expect that 
occasionally a home will develop one so lacking 
in self-control that sooner or later he will collide 
with the government; but it is not expected 
that women as a whole should so fail in their 
duty that whole nations are sent to rapid 
destruction by great factions of irrationalists. 

There are too many "eighty-seven per cent" 
bad boys; too many have failed to receive the 
blessing of the normal, sensible methods in their 
infancy and youth. 

She has failed to perform the duty she owed 
the world, and now she acknowledges her failure 
by asking the man for a place in his government. 
''I have failed to effectively teach my boy how 
to control and continue to build a bigger self- 
governing character, and now, my boy, please 



104 The Truth of the Hour. 

let me join your government and try to correct 
you.'* She has produced too many bad boys, 
and now it seems that there is an undercurrent 
influence deceiving her into the belief that she 
can correct the error in politics. But she will 
fail, for there are too many who do not know 
how to form good government and good char- 
acter after they have grown to full maturity. 

The female is born with a greater resistance 
of evil, owing to being practically free from the 
political characteristic ; but she is becoming more 
ungovernable by developing the political nature 
and abandoning the home life for that of the 
masculine. 

So many people seem to wonder at the Bible 
for commanding the woman to remain quiet in 
the church. It is nothing more than a command 
in conformity with her nature. A church is 
organized and conducted by the initiative char- 
acteristic of the masculine, and as the church 
grows in numerical strength the political char- 
acter becomes stronger and more conspicuous, 
exalting itself more and more. The dictating 
personnel of the Bible did not want the woman 
to develop a political nature; therefore every 
precaution for her has been used. 

She has an instinct power of her owm of 
higher order than man's organization. She has 



My Last Call, 105 

a power that will throttle and control even the 
head of the greatest of organizations, and when 
she develops a political characteristic she loses 
that instinct power. 

The instinct of woman controlling the man 
by the works of his imagination is an undeniable 
trait, an unchangeable fact that cannot be 
destroyed without minimizing the purpose and 
neutral power of the woman. 

A man must imagine his wo-man (wife) to 
be greater than he is, and that imagination must 
not be self-created. It is her duty as a woman 
to keep that imagination to its height by her 
consecration and instinct power. She must not 
become subject to connection and minutely 
associated with the common elementary frag- 
ments of the masculine's routine in commercial 
enterprises, common labor, political fads and 
governmental positions. 

When the woman loses that instinct power 
we lose the preservation of the sacredness of 
passion, and w^hen that is gone, passion quickly 
develops into an evil, reversing us to the animal, 
with the loss of the dominion of the earth. 

No world-wide movement makes a more 
authoritative announcement of man's loss of the 
right to reign and rule the earth than that of 
the rush of women into politics. But, as con- 



106 The Truth of the Hour, 

cerning the authoritative and governmental posi- 
tions, it seems that the great master of evil is 
working in the usual undercurrent manner, 
obviously to make things as destructive as 
possible, yet prolong the suffering with con- 
fusion. He is pressing the masculine out of 
reach of the authority of the woman, so to speak. 

She has been allowed to believe that (after 
having failed as a whole in the delivery of the 
boy) she can rush into politics and correct her 
error. Of course, if governmental powers were 
not changing their channel, she might be able to 
get in power and, in a measure, possibly be able 
to right the wrong. But the present day poli- 
tician interprets the government a servant to the 
people. He really means to do them a service by 
governing them; but they are going to take 
advantage of it and make the representatives 
do as they are told. Of course, right will be 
according to might more than ever before. The 
greatest and most influential factions will rule. 

The people becoming a mass of co-operating 
factions, electing leaders to the heads of the 
different factions, and the personnel of each 
faction backing each factional leader instead 
of the representative government; thus the rep- 
resentative government will be in a secondary 
position, and it naturally becomes a servant to 
the dictation of the factional leaders. 



My Last Call. 107 

The most strongly represented of the fac- 
tions are co-operative commerce and co-opera- 
tive labor. Competitive commerce and com- 
petitive labor are naturally supposed to be 
represented by the government, and, as we see, 
they are dying daily; so must we also easily 
recognize that the executive power of the govern- 
ment is dying daily, and our highly prized 
representative form of government, ''by the 
people and for the people," is just as rapidly 
becoming a thing of the past. Any chain is no 
stronger than its weakest link. The government 
has become a secondary position that the femi- 
nine sex can fill. In just a short while we will 
get along just as well with the women in congress, 
as there will be plenty of masculine factional 
leaders to tell them what to do. 

The factions are going to ignore the govern- 
ment more and more until we are drawn into 
the most destroying conflict the world has ever 
known. A nation fighting a nation is not half 
so destructive. The women are being drawn 
out of domestic life and are doing most all kinds 
of work that the men do. They are taking up 
the government positions, and, when the people 
go into factional wars, the women will be clubbed 
and shot down in the streets. 

The only time of note that the woman has 



108 The Truth of the Hour. 

ever entered the leadership of the house of 
Congress to control the adult by a general law 
was during the Adamic reign at the capital 
known as the Garden of Eden. Her name was 
Eve, and the record says that the government 
fell. We must remember that Eve was the best 
educated woman the world has ever produced, 
for she was a graduate under the angels of the 
Lord. 

The Scriptures tell us that these things 
happened a foretime for our admonition, so it is 
time for us to take heed that the women are 
not for governmental positions. They must con- 
fine their efforts to the formation of the character 
of the minor; then political governments will 
take care of themselves. 

The women had better remain in their 
natural position. They had better stay within 
their calling and do the things most natural, 
for we help most effectively when we do our 
own work most efficiently. If the women fail 
to stay within their own calling, a tearing down 
will be the result, just as sure as four from ten 
leaves six; in fact, either of them is a mere 
respective form of mathematics, and the one 
is no more accurate than the other. If she can 
not control the masculine in his minor state, she 
will certainly fall far short after he has run wild 
twenty-one years. 



My Last Call 109 

God had to personify the natural laws to 
be able to create the heavens and the earth. 
Christ had to personify natural law to be able 
to redeem man. The definition of the building- 
up and maintenance power is the proper laws 
personified. 

The Last Thread. 

The masculine's holding element is about 
to let go. The woman has been the unyielding 
statue to brace and support the human being 
during these thousand years of trial, not only 
laying and relaying characters, but replenishing 
the physical waste due to deterioration from 
sickness and death. She is about to surrender 
her particular calling, and allow the human 
character to be dynamited by the factional and 
co-operating evils. 

So successful has the great master of evils 
been in sowing the seed of co-operation that 
most every element or class is in such a chaotic 
condition that strife is breaking out in every 
little by-pass in the earth, which is due entirely 
to us not realizing that we are in the world to 
attend to our own calling. If the woman will 
attend to her own business, the governments 
can easily take care of themselves without 
further co-operation. If she neglects her busi- 



110 The Truth of the Hour. 

ness in the world, all the co-operation she may 
offer will not right her wrong. 

To the government, she is its only hope for 
maintenance of morals ; but she must act accord- 
ing to natural law. God has likewise placed the 
woman as a symbol of His church. She is to 
hold up the standard of the infinite chain of 
temporal law for earthly governments, and 
thereby become a symbol and a connecting 
thought, directing the attention to that great 
infinite chain of eternal law as advocated by 
the church. 

Jehovah will endorse the infinite chain of 
temporal law for earthly governments just as 
readily for the welfare and prosperity of the 
worldly people as the infinite chain of eternal 
law which is set forth for the clear vision of 
those called and elected to eternal life. 

The wo-man was God's only plan to keep 
the earthly governments to a high standard; 
and, of course, the church, symbolized by the 
woman, was to shadow the standard for the 
heavenly kingdom. The wo-man is non-politi- 
cal and the church is supposed to be non- 
political; therefore she is a symbol of the 
church. She is in the world to maintain the 
standard of purity for earthly governments, 
the same as the church is supposed to set forth 



My Last Call 111 

that standard in the coming kingdom of God. 
Each of them must perform its duty by the 
standard of law natural in the case — the church 
by the power of the Holy Spirit, not political; 
and the woman by the womanly spirit, not 
political. 

The Lord gave her the superresistance of 
evil, and likewise the primary details in laying 
the foundation of human character; so, then, it 
naturally falls to her to have the title of being 
the symbol of the church. As concerning the 
world, then, naturally the woman has for time 
immemorial been in her natural and proper 
place. Seemingly to prove that the political 
part in earthly governments was not her place, 
the angels seem to have demonstrated its failure 
in the Garden of Eden. But, in the evil of the 
last days, when destruction is determined to 
rule, the master of good and evil has found it 
easy to create attractions, and thus lead her 
away from her duties in building the human 
characters, which she alone can do. 

In organization there is strength, and gov- 
ernments are endorsed by the Lord; but when 
the situation becomes so defiled that the women 
co-operate with the men in industry, in politics, 
in common labor, the church co-operate with 
God, and the governments with the factions, the 



112 The Truth of the Hour, 

times are ripe for the climax. There is no lead- 
ership, no authority, no discipline to a higher 
order, but everything running wild under co- 
operation or political trading. They forget how- 
to serve, and the sweet virtue of discipline be- 
comes the essence of abomination. 

Because God declared that He is not a 
respecter of persons, they convey the inter- 
pretation that He is not a respecter of character; 
they think that He has destroyed the law of 
classification, and thereby made everything 
equal, regardless of the importance and value 
of law and character of things. 

Humanity day by day seems to overlook 
the importance of classified law, either temporal 
or eternal, and, as time rolls on, some important 
laws are minimized and some unimportant ones 
are maximized; and then whole links of good 
laws are extracted from the infinite chain and 
cast aside. 

Co-operation is not help, it is not service, 
it is not organization in the true sense, but a 
varying system of factionalism from the mild to 
the extreme of guerrilla war. Co-operation is 
that class of education which first creates the 
segregated districts by trying to feed that low 
and vicious lion known as the ''necessary evil,'* 
whose meat must come from the virgins of the 



My Last Call 113 

land. It then increases the evil by eliminating 
such districts and ^scattering the defiled and 
vulgar roots out into the more virgin soil of 
society, where these vulgar and undermining 
evils can be shed broadcast into the land and 
associate occasionally here and there with our 
pure women. Under this fad of co-operation 
the governors and statesmen become mad with 
freeing criminals, who have supplied their hunger 
for murder at the expense of the lives of law- 
abiding citizens; it is loudening the voice of 
the suffragette and hushing the voice of the 
mother, honoring the ignorant and unlearned 
with political recognition equal to the wise and 
educated; all of which are bad links of law on 
a sure mission of destruction, because it is a 
known fact from natural law that an evil root 
should be cleansed before set out in new and 
virgin soil. 

We think our Nation is Christian because 
we co-operate in these fads; we cry out, ''Our 
God is with us," when, in truth, we insistently 
break the infinite chain of law that gives us a 
right to exist in peace as a temporal power, 
saying nothing of the miss of the mark of the 
higher calling of God in Christ for the eternal 
existence promised those who believe. 



114 The Truth of the Hour, 

God is not a respecter of persons, but He 
is of character. The character is judged by the 
mere works set forth by it, and when it shows 
forth to be in the unredeemable state of evil, 
then the personnel of that character falls. 

Co-operation seems to be head-bent on the 
destruction of the individuality of man. While 
unity is one of the principles of Christianity, so 
is individuality just as distinctly essential, and 
one should not be advocated to the exclusion of 
the other. In fact, perfect unity is founded 
and maintained on perfect individuality, and 
with the loss of one we suffer the loss of both. 
Each of these great features has its distinct 
place, and when co-operation destroys individu- 
ality, it has thereby destroyed perfect unity, and 
substituted factionalism. 

The individuality and calling of the women 
must not be taken away. She must remain in 
her place in the world, for her place only can 
she fill. The church must likewise hold to its 
own individual character, and stay out of poli- 
tics, even to the advocating by strict teachings 
the complete death of the political character- 
istic. When these two great powers return to 
their proper place, the nations can possibly be 
raised to a higher plane; but, in all probability, 
the time has come and the fall is sure. 



My Last Call 115 

CHAPTER X. 

What Church Is God's Church? 

This question has been asked by the con- 
sciences of many persons: What church is God's 
church? Many things can be written on the 
subject, yet enough has already been said in the 
Bible to settle the question, if people were 
interested enough to study. * 'There is no royal 
road to geometry," an educated man once said 
to a ruler. ''Study to show thyself approved 
of the Lord," said Paul to Timothy. We must 
study to find the answer to this all-important 
subject. Evidently belonging to a church will 
not save or destroy us. No, that is not the 
thought. But, if we know the character of 
the church which God endorses, then we will 
be more able to distinguish the infinite chain 
of knowledge to which God has been so faithful 
as to endeavor to elevate us. Then, what shall 
we study? The answer is law. We must study 
the law of the Bible. 

It should be interesting to note that God 
deals with a lawful people. It is only natural 
for Him to claim close relationship with those 
who endorse His infinite chain of law — a law 
without a break; w^ithout the breach. "For I 
speak to them that know the law." (Rom. 7 : 1.) 



116 The Truth of the Hour, 

We may get more convincing evidence on 
this subject by reading Luke 15 : 8, 9: ''Either 
what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she 
lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep 
the house, and seek diligently till she find it? 
And when she hath found it, she calleth her 
friends and neighbors together, saying, Rejoice 
with me, for I have found the piece which I had 
lost." The woman is a symbol of the church, 
and we should study what the ten pieces of 
silver mean. They are her character in ten 
characteristics, each one a pure and natural law, 
a link necessary in the infinite chain. The 
words of the Saviour merely tell what the dis- 
position of the church should be with reference 
to that law of ten links. 

To properly understand this parable, we 
will recall some Jewish laws and customs. It 
seems that they had a custom of giving their 
young girls an endless chain of ten pieces of 
silver, similar to a necklace. This represented 
her virgin character, and made her a symbol of 
God's church that is identified by the ten com- 
mandments. If she lost one piece of the silver, 
it signified that she had broken her infinite chain 
of purity, and this made her ineligible to mar- 
riage, as well as depriving her of the pleasure 
of much home authority and advantages. It 



My Last Call. 117 

did not make it impossible for her to marry, 
but her marriage was not acceptable to the 
church and Jewish society. She could marry 
one of her countrymen, but she was looked upon 
with much more disfavor than we look upon a 
present-day fornicator's marriage. Her husband 
was privileged, if not religiously bound, to de- 
prive her of the authority naturally accorded 
the wife. When she lost one of her pieces of 
silver, she, of course, sought diligently until she 
found it, and the natural joy which followed 
would prompt her to call her neighbors to 
rejoice with her. 

We may recall the fact that the character 
of Christ was the law of God. (St. John 1:1; 
I John 1 : 1-3.) He was born in the earth to live 
that law. God had always lived the law, and, 
as a natural result, He is a master. He then 
overshadowed Christ with angels until he lived 
the law, and was delivered on the cross to pay 
the death penalty that it demanded for others 
who had broken it. The Lord united with 
Christ through the law, and Christ also became 
a ruler, or, as more commonly known to us, a 
groom waiting for His bride, the lawful people 
of the earth. 

A bride is a people who recognize the infinite 
chain of law — those who will not accept a doc- 



118 The Truth of the Hour. 

trine in which has been welded an unnatural 
law or weak link. 

We must also recall that the Jewish cere- 
monial laws were typical of a matrimonial law 
or marraige. Through repentance for breaking 
the ten commandments the ceremonial laws 
were a kind of a necessary ceremony the Jews 
passed through for the atonement of those sins. 
But since Christ came and the veil in the temple 
was rent in twain, there has been a change of 
ceremony for the uniting of Christ with the 
bride. The ceremony is made plain in the Bible, 
and in the last chapters of this book. 

The woman could be married without the 
ten symbolic characteristics of purity, yet she 
was considered to be living in adultery. Still, 
she could have the entire ten, and be eligible 
to marriage, but not married. The churches 
that are not endorsing the entire ten command- 
ments are by self-indulgence joined to the name 
of Christ in the same sense that the Jewess, 
having her broken chain, was married to the Jew. 

The church of the Jews was the intended 
bride, waiting for the Groom, but when He 
came He upbraided them for their false pretense 
of living the law and the mock ceremonies. This 
offended the intended bride and she rejected the 
Groom and refused to repent. The Groom then 



My Last Call. 119 

departed into a far country, but He promised 
the few that He would not leave them comfort- 
less; He would send a comforter. It seems 
that the bride became stupified over her rash 
act of rejecting the Groom, and for a time she 
slept. When she aroused she found that one of 
the ten links was missing from her chain. She 
found it dark and therefore necessary to light 
a candle and seek diligently till she recovered 
the lost coin. But note that after she finds the 
coin, she is only eligible to marriage; she is not 
yet married. The Groom must come again for 
the marriage to take place. 

She sought diligently till she found the lost 
coin, and when she found it she rushed out to 
call the neighbors to rejoice with her. This 
woman is the church who knows God's law, the 
unbroken ten commandments. These people, 
the remnant of the converted Jews and Gentiles, 
swept the Bible from cover to cover until they 
discovered the jewel that had been lost, and when 
they found it they rushed out into all the world 
to call their neighbors to rejoice with them. 

Now, what church has something that is 
holy and pure, made so by the act of God, which 
has been extracted from the ten commandments? 
It is the church with the gift of knowledge of 
the law — that Sabbath of natural law; the 



120 The Truth of the Hour. 

Sabbath that God instituted back at creation; 
the only day that has ever been made holy by 
a holy God. The ten commandments were torn 
in two by the people who still clung to the fallen 
nature of Adam, and they tried to patch up the 
breach and put in a Sabbath day of their own. 

It has developed almost into a proverb that 
the official Head of the Laodicean church has no 
religion but its Sabbath. But this is due to the 
natural rejoicing that follows the finding of some- 
thing precious — something that you once owned 
and lost. The Saviour said (Luke 15:7): ''I say 
unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven 
over one sinner that repenteth, more than over 
ninety and nine just persons, which need no 
repentance." It is only natural to rejoice more 
over that which has been lost, and found, than 
over that which has not been lost at all. Their 
extreme rejoicing over the Sabbath is one of the 
additional signs of the accuracy of natural law 
and the divinity of the Saviour in such law. 

This parable virtually forewarns us that 
the official voice of the tribes of Israel will 
search the Scriptures until it finds the lost 
jewel that has been torn from God's law, and 
then they will rush out with great enthusiasm 
in an effort to get the world to rejoice with them. 



My Last Call 121 

It seems that for seventy years the heads 
of the Laodiceali church have done this thing. 
But even though they have the ten command- 
ments, they are only in line for marriage with 
the Groom. The Saviour appeared before in 
person, and rebuked the bride for pretentiously 
living the ten commandments. Matthew, fif- 
teenth chapter, more particularly the seventh 
and eighth verses: ''Ye hypocrites, well did 
Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people 
draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and 
honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is 
far from me." 

The church of God will have to be rebuked 
this time as before, but He will not do it in 
person. When He comes His reward will be 
with Him to give to every man according to 
his works. (Rev. 22 : 12.) 

The Work of the Holy Spirit, 

In St. John 16 : 8-11: ''And when He (the 
Comforter) is come. He will reprove the world 
of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. 
Of sin, because they believe not on Me; of 
righteousness, because I go to My Father, and 
ye see Me no more; of judgment, because the 
Prince of this world is judged." 



122 The Truth of the Hour, 

**0f sin.'' The world needs rebuke, because 
they do not believe that the Saviour came to 
give endorsement to the infinite chain of tem- 
poral law that, after careful obedience to the 
same, the nations would be protected from the 
destroying factions. 

**0/ righteousness, because I go to My 
Father, and ye see Me no more." The Saviour 
is not here with us to personally guide us and 
prevent law messengers from becoming self- 
confident while they are trying to keep a law. 
But they must know that there is something 
more powerful than a person, namely, the 
Comforter, the only messenger who can properly 
convert the person into the righteousness of the 
law. 

''Of judgment.'' The judgment of everyone 
takes place from his works in the earth, and 
from his own words. 

So God's church will be rebuked just before 
the second advent of the Saviour. They will be 
rebuked by a specially called messenger of God. 
Those who accept will be rewarded when He 
comes; they will be called to stand judgment 
on their own doctrines and own words. 



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CHAPTER XL 

The Book of Revelation Foretold. 

We must now get interested in the follow- 
ing Scripture: 

''There be some standing here, which shall 
not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man 
coming in His kindgom." (Matt. 16 : 28.) 

''There be some of them that stand here, 
which shall not taste of death, till they have seen 
the kingdom of God come with power." (Mark 
9:1.) 

"There be some standing here, which shall 
not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of 
God." (Luke 9: 27.) 

It is the popular idea that this prophecy 
was fulfilled at the transfiguration on the mount 
some six days later. In calling attention to the 
fulfillment of this prophecy of the Saviour let 
me first cite the fact that no one of the three 
records include all of those present. Peter, 
James and John were present when the Saviour 
made the forecast. He evidently referred to 
some particular one of the group — as much as 
to say: "There be one in our midst who shall 



124 The Truth of the Hour. 

not taste of death," etc. It will be remem- 
bered that the trio were all present and virtually 
had a part in the transfiguration. 

The wording of the three records is different, 
and all could not apply to the transfiguration; 
therefore, a fulfillment that would suit the 
wording of any one and all of the three records 
is the one for which we must look. 

Not only following the transfiguration on 
the mount, but after the resurrection of the 
Saviour, we find this conversation took place 
between the Saviour and Peter: ''Verily, verily, 
I say unto thee, when thou wast young, thou 
girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou 
w^ouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt 
stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird 
thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not." 
''This spake He, signifying by what death he 
(Peter) should glorify God. And when he had 
spoken this, he saith unto him, follow me." "Then 
Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom 
Jesus loved, following; which also leaned on 
his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is 
he that betrayeth Thee?" 

"Peter, seeing him (John), saith to Jesus, 
Lord, and what shall this man do? Jesus saith 
unto him, if I will that he tarry till I come, what 
is that to thee? Follow thou Me. Then went 



My Last Call 125 

this saying abroad among the brethren, that 
that disciple should not die; yet Jesus said not 
unto him, He shall not die; but, if I will that 
he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?" 
(St. John 21 : 18-23.) 

This conversation evidently is convincing 
to any human mind that neither of the three 
men understood that the transfiguration was 
the fulfillment of the prophecy. Peter's inquiry 
and Jesus' answer are both sufficient evidence 
that they understood that the prophecy was 
directed to John, w^ho was then present. Jesus 
knew that Peter was referring to the prophecy 
of John, and understanding the condition of 
Peter's heart he. made the curt reply: ''If I will 
that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? 
Follow thou Me." 

The prophecy has been fulfilled, but not 
at the transfiguration. I suppose that the 
Saviour did not care to tell Peter that He was 
going to place in John, by vision, all the things 
that w^ere to transpire between that day and 
the day of His second advent to the earth. It 
was not the hour for it to be revealed. For 
them to know just the amount that the prophecy 
outlined was sufficient for that day. It was 
written for us in our day. 



126 The Truth of the Hour. 

The day the Saviour made the prophecy 
He knew by fai:h that John had been selected 
to see by vision and write the book of divine 
Revelation, a book that has no doubt told every 
important universal event in the last dispensation 
of mortal man, even to the destruction of the 
wicked and the setting up of the kingdom of 
our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. As Jesus 
forewarned that John would see all the future 
events by vision, it makes the book of Revela- 
tion a double prophecy. 

For I testify unto every man that heareth 
the words of the prophecy of this book, if any 
man shall add unto these things, God shall add 
unto him the plagues that are written in this 
book. And if any man shall take away from 
the words of this prophecy, God shall take 
away his part out of the book of life, and out 
of the Holy City, and from the things which 
are written in this book. (Rev. 22 : 18, 19.) 

It will be well for all of God's people to take 
strict warning from these words, as the message 
is to those who read it. There are very few 
who are going to read it unless thay think they 
are His children. Do not overlook the fact that 
God is talking to His people — not one, but all. 
"As many as I love I rebuke and chasten, be 
zealous therefore and repent," (Rev, 3 : 19.) 



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^^Come out of her, my people, that ye be not 
partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of 
her plagues/' (Rev. 18 : 4.) 

Therefore, the book of divine Revelation is 
a message of condemnation to some people and 
one of redemption to others. If we take the 
position that it cannot be understood, or is not 
meant for us, then it is a message of condemna- 
tion. 

It says, ''We must not take from." Now, 
suppose I should deny that the Laodicean mes- 
sage in the third chapter is to me. Then I am 
taking out one of the most beautiful interpreta- 
tions that God has ever made to man. He 
there loves me sufficiently to warn me on my 
way, and, if I pay no heed, then I am taking out 
part of the book so far as I am concerned. God 
will be compelled to take away the blessing that 
is there promised. 



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CHAPTER XII. 

What Are the Keys to the Kingdom of God? 
What is the Door to the Kingdom? 
What is the Stone on Which the Foun- 
dation OF THE Church Stands? 

These questions are all answered from the 
Scriptures, literally and according to common 
sense. Christ said that He is the door to the 
kingdom. (St. John, tenth chapter.) The key 
must be the instrument that unlocks that door 
of the Christ-life. The world has been sub- 
merged by the idea that Peter has that key and 
has gone to heaven with it and is there guarding 
the gate to admit and reject whom he will. 
The very thought is seriously erroneous. 

THE LOST KEY. 

The world has long believed 

That Peter has ever sat 
With the Keys and watching 

At the heavenly gate 
To read the judgment 

To the souls who came 
For a home that belonged 

To their Christian name. 



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The error has long been 

And the deception is great, 
For the souls have failed 

To reach the golden gate. 
Alas, it is very sad. 

For they seemed not to know 
That the Key had been left 

In the great earth below. 

It was given to Peter 

Who left it down here 
To assure us that Satan 

Could not interfere 
With the children of God, 

Who will not be lost. 
For the Key was given 

In the Pentecost. 

Christ is the door. The Holy Spirit is the 
key for the opening of that door, and the things 
revealed by the Holy Spirit is the stone founda- 
tion on which the church stands. 

''Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah, for 
flesh and blood did not reveal it unto thee, but 
My Father which is in heaven. And I say unto 
thee, thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will 
build My church; and the gates of hell shall 
not prevail against it. Then He charged His 
disciples that they should tell no man that He 
was Jesus, the Christ." (Matt. 16 : 18-20.) 

Christ was not talking about building His 
church on Peter, nor on any stone likened by 



130 The Truth of the Hour. 

the name of Peter, but He was referring to the 
revelation made to Peter. The fact that He 
charged the disciples that they should tell no 
man that He was the Christ was significant 
that He was depending on the revelations made 
by the Father through angelic agencies. 

There were three distinct features in the 
Saviour's statement: First, the revelations were 
made by the Father. Second, the church people 
will stand on a revelation, and the gates of hell 
cannot prevail against it. Third, the disciples 
need not tell anyone that He was the Christ, be- 
cause the Holy Spirit had the power to reveal 
to any He chose. The apostles may preach the 
gospel, but they cannot reveal. 

The heavenly Father has the required 
number of angels working throughout the earth. 
They have His plans and instructions to carry 
out His will in just the same sense as we have 
the Bible. Of course, they are on different 
missions. Melchisedec and his assistants were 
here on a mission of material creation. The 
angels at present are on more of a reform mis- 
sion ; creating new character (new to us) . Every 
soul is visited personally. Close angelic investi- 
gations are made of each person, the situation 
and circumstances are fairly considered, and, 
whether his position be great or small, his knowl- 



My Last Call, 131 

edge be much or little, the person is given a fair 
and square trial according to righteousness. 

If the person be one who will accept the 
character of Christ, then he is given a certain 
amount of overcoming power and revelation. If 
he accepts all that is revealed to him, the result 
in the resurrection will be accordingly as those 
who had much and accepted it. 

We are all lost, who are lost, on rebellion 
or refusing to repent on just one sin. That sin is 
a sin unto death, due to rebellion. There is but 
one sin unto death for each person, and that sin 
is one of rebellion at a time w^hen the angel of 
God labored with him or her the last time. 

We have churches, we have evangelists, we 
have teachers, preachers, apostles, prophets, etc., 
but this is not necessarily the primary means 
that God uses to reach a people to bring them 
to their duty; it is more likely to be the second- 
ary means. 

When any of the above are sent into a land 
to persons, it does not signify that they are fore- 
runners. It is more proper to interpret it that 
the angels of God have already visited that place. 

For various reasons, and because men fail 
to distinguish the difference between the voices 
of good and bad angels, the angelic messages are 
rejected, and then, through the long-suffering 



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and forbearance of God, those persons who did 
hear and understand the voice of God are com- 
missioned and sent to those who have rejected, 
or are questioning under difficulties. 

The different gifts are set to work in the 
church. Prophets work, teachers work, miracles 
are wrought, healing is done, unknown tongues 
are spoken, i. e., unknown to the speaker, the 
gift of interpretation, works of faith, and all 
other gifts, as well as helps and governments, 
are used to awaken the earth's personnel to the 
sureness of the existence of God and His mercies, 
by warning beforehand of the impending dangers. 
As one accepts the message that he hears from 
the workers of his own flesh and blood, then the 
way is again opened for the angels of the Lord 
to return to that soul and work personally, giv- 
ing him the revelation with inspired power to 
become a demonstrator of one or more of the 
gifts if he yields. 

The Bible is more of a messenger in a 
prosecuting form than that of a redeemer to 
the beginner or converting man. It does not 
become a message of redemption until the filthi- 
ness of the flesh is virtually destroyed. Until 
that time the evangelists, preachers, teachers, 
apostles, etc., are virtually prosecuting attorneys. 
They should preach the w^ord in its literal mean- 
ing, let it convict and convince whom it may. 



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It would be useless to preach the word to a 
righteous soul ; the Saviour did not come to save 
the righteous, but to call the sinners to repent- 
ance; therefore, it is more than useless, and time 
wasted, to preach a sermon to an audience that 
harmonized with the mode of life practiced. The 
act itself would be inconsistent with the cause. 

If a sinner's attitude is such that he acknowl- 
edges condemnation on his part, and voluntarily 
comes to judgment, then he places himself so 
that Christ, through the angelic representation, 
can deal personally with him. 

There is no attempt made herein to suggest 
at what stage the angels begin to make revela- 
tions to people, because they do this entirely 
according to the tension of the sensitiveness of 
the person ; but one point should be made clear : 
There are evil angels at work who have good 
points of argument. Good angels pursue every 
known method to convert and convince the 
person while there is yet mercy. They make 
particular effort to follow every method in detail ; 
to give every person a fair chance which will 
prevent the unfair angels from accusation of 
neglect. As Adam and Eve, together with all 
other characters of biblical denomination and 
fame, had access to and were educated by angel 
teachers, so it is with us. 



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CHAPTER XIII. 

Christ Interrogates Peter. 

Whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, 
am? Some say Thou art John the Baptist; 
some, EUas; and others, Jeremias, or one of the 
prophets. But whom say ye that I am? Thou 
art the Christ, the Son of the Hving God .... 
And I will give unto thee the keys to the kingdom 
of heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt bind on 
earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever 
thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in 
heaven. 

This might be said to be one of the seem- 
ingly hard things of the Scriptures. It seems 
very, very improbable that God would give 
power on earth for one person to bind another 
so strong that it would affect him in heaven. 
It is not difficult to see that many people are 
imposed upon by officials of churches only 
because of their false understanding of the 
Scriptures and justifying themselves by hiding 
behind these statements. But it happens that 
God knows what He is doing when He issues 
such statements. They serve a double purpose, 
as we know that the wheat and tares grow 



My Last Call. 135 

together until the harvest, and that binding in 
earth really does take place, and it is done in a 
two-fold manner. 

When God revealed to Peter that Jesus 
was really the Christ, the gates of hell could 
not prevail against that revelation. Although 
Satan desired and did sift Peter, the hellish 
spirit did not prevail. At the crucifixion of the 
Saviour the devil temporarily succeeded in get- 
ting Peter to deny Christ, but Peter later re- 
pented and the revelation prevailed. The same 
Holy Spirit who revealed the Saviour to Peter 
stood by him in the later trials and saw to it 
that the revelation should prevail. It is through 
the work of the Holy Spirit that judgment is 
made against some other person. The Christian 
does not bind anyone on earth with any thought 
or voluntary work or words of his own, but the 
opposing person is bound at a time, probably, 
when the Christian is not necessarily personally 
offended in the least. The Holy Spirit taketh 
hold on him and causeth him to speak the bind- 
ing judgment against the offending brother; and 
even more so, for in many cavses the offender 
actually is allowed to speak the words of his 
own judgment. It is the case that persons are 
measured by their own words. 



136 The Truth of the Hour. 

From Adam until this day the poHtical spirit 
has entered the church ; more for the reason that 
church people fail to realize that the fundamental 
principle of conversion is the death of the politi- 
cal characteristic. The leaders will claim, to a 
more or less extent, that their church is clear of 
political methods, but not a church since Adam 
has at all times been clear of the binding spirit 
framed after the ordeal of the political nature 
of man. Criticism is not judgment; but church 
people, organized into church councils, executive 
committees, etc., vested with power of organiza- 
tion to pass judgment of varying degrees on the 
individuality of their subjects, is wrong, even 
from the humane or democratic standpoint, say- 
ing nothing of the broad principles laid down by 
the Saviour. It is the Holy Spirit in the world 
carrying out the plan of God, Who renders the 
results of judgment so pure, unerring and abso- 
lute. Not even in the smallest instance of life 
can the evil prevail to any damaging degree 
against those who receive the revelation direct 
from God in this prescribed and ordained 
manner. 

The Promise. 

The promise of God is one of the most 
essential virtues of the Bible that is misinter- 
preted and misapplied. It is here mentioned to 



My Last Call, 137 

get a connecting thought with it and the inter- 
rogation of Peter. 

There are so many things that can be 
claimed to be the promises of God that we are 
liable to overlook the fruit-bearing feature of it. 

Whom will the Holy Spirit bind on earth and 
in heaven? This question comes bearing directly 
on the ordinary person who commits no extra- 
ordinary or special offense. The answer is found 
in treating with this phrase: ''If we confess our 
sins He is faithful and just to forgive us of our 
sins." A person who will not confess a sin — one 
that God says is a sin, and one that is brought to 
the attention of the person by a representative of 
God — is one who w^ill be bound in the earth; 
that is, the binding judgment will take place on 
the earth and the record sent to heaven. 

The Scripture was not fully quoted : 'Tf we 
confess our sins. He is faithful and just to for- 
give us our sins and to cleanse us from all un- 
righteousness." The last part of this scriptural 
reference is one of the most essential features 
of the promise of God. The person who would 
neglect to get action on the last part of that 
promise will do just as well not to attempt to 
confess his sins. 

''And to cleanse us from all unrighteousness ,'' 
There are many people who are always crying 



138 The Truth of the Hour. 

out, ''Lord, forgive me of my sins," but there 
are very, very few who know the mountainous 
importance of relying wholly upon God for the 
cleansing from sin. People try to keep a law 
after they have confessed their sins, and many 
think they are, therefore, righteous, but they are 
going to find themselves to be mistaken. Others 
see that there is no righteousness by keeping the 
law, and they thereby cry that the law is abol- 
ished and non-eflective, and they likewise fall 
into error. Law is to be kept; but it must be 
done by a gift from the Holy Spirit. No earthly 
man can distinguish by his knowledge the man 
who keeps a law by power of inspiration and 
the one who is keeping the law by his own 
method, convictions and strength. This is why 
that judgments cannot be passed by men, church 
councils, executive committees, etc. The per- 
sons possessing the gift of discernment are the 
ones to judge when judgment is passed, and 
they must be inspired by the Holy Spirit. 

But we must get back on the important part 
of this subject, namely: The neglect of holding 
to God to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 
Two will be grinding at the same stone; one 
will be taken and the other left. Two will be in 
the field together; one will be taken and the 
other left. This saying is found in the twenty- 



My Last Call. 139 

fourth chapter of Matthew, which shows that 
two people, keeping the same law and doing 
practically the same things, one will be saved 
and the other lost. One confessed his sins, and 
by the power of faith influenced God to cause 
him to keep the law; while the other confessed 
his sins, then started out to keep the law; conse- 
quently one was taken and the other one left. 
The one who depended on God to give him the 
righteousness, as well as to give him forgiveness, 
is the one who will be taken. 

Their cases are very well explained by the 
parable of the Ten Virgins, brought out in the 
twenty-fifth chapter of St. Matthew. Five were 
wise and five were foolish. Five were foolish 
because they thought they could co-operate with 
God in the salvation of their souls ; because they 
had no oil for their lamps they were rejected in 
heaven. They had been rejected in heaven 
because they were foolish enough to believe that 
they could confess their sins and be forgiven; 
then keep a law and be righteous. On this 
account much darkness exists in the world, much 
sickness; much cloudiness of the mind remains, 
much binding and judging by church councils 
who have their political characteristics yet in its 
full-grown state. 

We are not wise if we overlook that all- 



140 The Truth of the Hour. 

important thing that the body must be cleansed 
by the quickening power of God. How fooUsh 
it is for a person to try to keep a righteous law 
in the defiled body? How foolish it is to try to 
keep new wine in old skins? It is essential to 
expect God to cleanse the body or we cannot 
expect the sins to be forgiven. The body will 
not be cleansed unless we look to Him for the 
cleansing in the same confidence and faith in 
which we look to Him for the forgiveness of our 
sins. When we look solely to Him for cleansing, 
then overcoming power is easy and becomes a 
common fact in the momentary events of life. 

There are two distinct ways of living a law : 
One is by faith and the other by a belief — a 
feather of faith or a trembling belief; again, a 
happy faith or a cowardice belief. Which have 
you? There is decidedly a difference in faith 
and belief. 

To live up to the demands of the law by a 
trembling belief only gives a temporal reward. 
But to live it in a happy faith and clinging to 
the sure promise of God to cleanse will eternally 
reward. The Saviour's words to Peter: ''And 
I will give thee the keys to the kingdom of God, 
and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall 
be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt 
loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven," is ful- 



My Last Call, 141 

filled by the gift of the Holy Spirit. And He 
does any necessary binding. 

A Trip Through the Garden of Christian 

Experiences. 

I can explain the personal work of the Holy 
Spirit by relating the picture once given in a 
parable at a Sabbath school. 

The Christian experiences were likened to 
a field with the many miry, marshy places and 
holes of all kinds. The Bible was likened to a 
sign, and the different laws were likened to sign- 
boards in the field. The home of the Father 
was pictured over in the center of the field, and 
it was said that we could reach the home of the 
Father by walking into the field and watching 
the signs. The parable-giver seemed to think 
that to enter the field was an ordinary under- 
taking, and with self-determination success was 
sure. 

The Bible is a big book and full of big moral 
ideas, and no man can follow it and enjoy the 
full merit thereof unless guided, as was Adam 
and Eve, Christ, Paul and others, by the angels. 

Mental telepathy from the angels unto men, 
or from angel to angel, is an ordinary and daily 
experience; therefore it is no miraculous thing 



142 The Truth of the Hour, 

to feel and know that angels can speak the 
teachings to us at all times, day or night. 

When we enter the field of Christian experi- 
ences we must first recall these words: 'What 
man among you thinking to build a tower would 
not first sit down and figure up the cost?" Do 
we ever sit down and figure that when we enter 
the field that it means a death? It really means 
worse than a physical death. When a person 
is really passing through a physical death the 
time is very short, and that person usually 
resigned to go. But not so with those who are 
dying characteristically. The old character 
struggles daily against death, and each succes- 
sive characteristic usually dies just as hard as 
the first one. 

There will be many who enter the field and 
begin to read the signs and still fall far short of 
reaching the home of the Father. They will 
apparently read the Bible with the same care 
and earnestness as others who succeed. 

What really keeps them from reading the 
signs aright can be answered by referring to the 
fact that they entered the field on a confession 
brought about by cowardice, and thereby failed 
to grasp the blessing of a faith that would bring 
about a cleansing. They would not accept the 
fact that it was up to the Lord to cause them 



My Last Call 143 

to do righteousness. They refuse the Key to 
the Kingdom — the Key that unlocks the door 
to the Christ-Hfe. ''These are they that keep 
the commandments of God," but, alas, they fail 
to follow the rest of it,'' and the faith of Jesus!'' 

When the Saviour left the world and 
ascended to the Father, He promised that He 
would send the Comforter, Who would guide us 
into all truth. This is the promise of the Father, 
and through this medium we get our cleansing. 
The forgiveness of our sins could be done by 
order of the Court from the judicial bench in 
Heaven, but the cleansing from unrighteousness 
must be done here, and, of course, it is up to 
this personal representative of God to do this, 
as He is sent here by the Father and the Son 
precisely on this mission. The Holy Spirit, being 
on this mission, automatically becomes the Key 
to the door. 

If we enter the field without the Key, we 
will be the ones to whom this Scripture will 
apply: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that 
entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but 
climbeth up some other way, the same is a theif 
and a robber." (St. John 10 : 1-3.) 

The Key was promised to Peter. It was 
fulfilled at Pentecost. Peter was in charge of 
the meeting and was first to receive the Holy 



144 The Truth of the Hour, 

Spirit. Therefore, the Key is the Holy Spirit, 
and any seeking admittance into the hoHness of 
being cleansed and doing righteousness of God 
must tarry until they receive the Baptism of 
the Holy Spirit. (Acts 1:8; Luke 24:49; 
St. John 16 : 7.) 

When we enter the field it is necessary for 
us to enter on something more than a belief 
brought about through fear (cowardice). It 
must be an earnestness that will yield our souls 
to God and allow the death of the old character. 

While on the journey through the field two 
heavenly-bound candidates discuss the minor 
sins. One of them said: 'T do not use coffee. 
We do not believe it is right to use coffee. 
Neither do we go to the theater, for the church 
doctrine does not approve of it." The con- 
versation naturally continued for some time on 
the little idle sins. Each time the first speaker 
made it plain that she thought it was proper 
for us to quit our sins. Finally she said that 
sometimes she longed to do those things, but 
she just forcibly put them out of her mind. 

The conversation naturally drifted around 
to where the first speaker wanted to know some- 
thing of the second. ''Do you commit this cer- 
tain sin?" "No." 'Why?" "Because I do not 
want to. I would use coffee if I wanted to. 



My Last Call. 145 

I would go to the theater if I wanted to. I 
would dance if I wanted to. I do not demand 
of God to help me quit these things. I merely 
confess them as sins, and my demands were 
along the line that He take them away." 

Now which do we consider the real Chris- 
tian? The second speaker. The second speaker 
has nothing to boast of, because she did not 
co-operate with God; He did the cleansing; 
there is no rewards for works; eternal life will 
be a free gift. God gave the righteousness; 
therefore He gave the eternal life. But the 
first speaker has something to boast about, 
because she has done something; she has paid 
full price for her righteousness, and if she were 
translated, or resurrected, her eternal blessing 
would have been bought and paid for by her. 
The gift is destroyed. The second speaker did 
righteousness because she wanted to, and she did 
not want to until God changed her real nature. 



146 The Truth of the Hour. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

''Except Ye Become Converted, Ye Shall 
Not Enter the Kingdom of Heaven." 

The Saviour has expressly spoken and said 
that unless we become changed from the human 
political spirit to that in the class of the Holy 
Spirit of God we cannot enter the Kingdom of 
God. 

Many people lay claim to the fact they 
have been converted into Christianity. Some 
even believe that they have been converted in 
a day, or at a revival. Can we be converted 
in so short length of time as a day? We can 
change a principle in a day, but the character 
should be of many principles. If God created 
man in one day then it may be possible for our 
characters to be changed in a day. Even in 
creating the first man it would not be as difficult 
to educate him into a perfect character in a day 
as in this case, because we have the old character 
to unload before we can take on the new. There 
is no mystery about converting the human 
character, since the law of time can be taken 
into consideration. 



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Iron, we convert into an engine; rubber, 
e may convert into a tire; wood and iron, we 
may convert into a wagon wheel. Time is one 
of the laws necessary to make implements of 
useful and durable nature. 

We can start a character on its road to a 
change in a short time, but it cannot be com- 
pleted, made moral and of a long durable nature 
unless the old characteristics are beaten down 
by the hammer of experience and slain by daily 
re-surrendering them to the altar of sincere con- 
fession to God, in the name of Jesus, from the 
secret chamber. 

It will take some time to cross the field of 
Christian experiences; if so, it will evidently 
take longer than a day to be converted. There 
are many difficulties, tests and trials through 
which the candidate must pass, which is for 
unloading the old nature. These terrible ex- 
periences are not the price of the new character ; 
the new comes free and easy; but it's the price 
we pay for unloading of the old nature, which 
would not be if that nature did not cling to us 
and resist death. 

It is not lowering the name of the Deity to 
infer that it takes time; neither does it imply 
weakness on His part. But it magnifies Him, 
and suggests consideration on His part for the 



148 The Truth of the Hour. 

personnel of the dying character. Getting the 
person to agree from moment to moment to the 
death of the old character so the new character 
may grow absolutely requires the law of time. 

It has been proven over and over, hundreds 
and hundreds of times, that people start out in 
the effort to a Christian life and turn back. The 
fact is plain to be understood, for they come 
face to face with some portion of their disposition 
that they refuse to sacrifice. 

There is one place where briefly the refined 
state of a converted character is given: Gal. 
5 : 22, 23. These nine traits of character are 
given. Then it closes by saying: ^'Against such 
there is no law." 

There is a lav/ against the converting enter- 
ing the new earth, but the converted, or those 
with the fruits of the Spirit, against such there 
is no law. 

By considering the fruits of the Spirit in 
their order, we can see that one cannot be con- 
verted into that character in a day. Suppose 
we take an imaginary human character and 
convert it into this moral state by theory. 
To do it in this theoretical manner it will be 
necessary to strictly work lawfully. 



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In naming them in their order, we find love 
the first mentioned, and we may conclude that 
this word love is used to mean a part and not 
the whole. We will omit love for the present, 
knowing, as we do, that it embraces the broadest 
scope of the field of character, and as used here 
evidently it is a part, because if it were used 
to mean the whole then the last eight fruits 
would not be mentioned. 

The English vocabulary is too stinted to 
explain this with ease, so it will be necessary 
to create a new word. We may find what we 
want by defining fear and applying it to our 
case. There are two kinds of fear; one belongs 
to unnatural law, and the other to natural law. 
The fear to do a thing because of the punishment 
as the result is the ''fear" that belongs to un- 
natural law. Fear of mistakes and errors be- 
cause of the admiration of the right is the ''fear" 
that belongs to natural law. The latter we 
shall spell "f-e-a-r-e," so we may keep closely 
to our subject. "Feare" is one of the primary 
essential elements to begin the manufacture of 
Christian character. Like any of the other 
fruits, it is an essential part to make the whole. 
The whole character of Christ could not be 
perfect without this "feare." In beginning our 
task of converting, we must first associate our 



150 The Truth of the Hour. 

candidate with this word and note the change. 
We are supposing that we have the extreme 
immoral character, with all the evilness of the 
flesh: ''Which are these, adultery, fornication, 
uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, 
hatred . . . ." 

Can w^e concentrate our minds now long 
enough to get an imaginary glimpse of this 
sinner's mind? He is hardly in the state of 
mixed law of good and evil, but loaded almost 
to the brim with evil law. 

There is no doubt but that this soul has 
some kind of fear, and little do we know which 
kind of fear exists, but we hope that he has 
''f-e-a-r-e" in his heart and is found in this 
present state more from weakness of the flesh 
than from pure heart love of evil. The hard- 
ships of sin naturally unsettle him, and in his 
mind the question often arises, ''What will the 
end be?" If he begins to fear because of the 
punishment, then he will be directed to an eter- 
nal death; but if the other "feare" comes over 
him, then he has a chance for a change to an 
endless life. If he turns from his sins because 
he is afraid of the punishment thereof, he will 
never receive a greater reward than a temporal 
blessing; but if that "feare" sweeps through his 
soul, then the returning avalanches of sin will 



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not sweep him so close back to the precipice of 
eternal ruin but that he will recover and return. 
It is this kind that the gates of hell cannot 
prevail against. This is the kind that the Holy 
Spirit labors with patiently and unsparingly and 
to whom He reveals the ''Truth of the hour.'' 

The first characteristic of the Spirit of 
Christ comes to him and he begins to hate sin. 
He ''feares" with a quivering soul, but not as a 
man who is a coward. He is not afraid of the 
results of serving the evil life. Why should he 
be? He has partaken of sin in its depths, and 
by the natural results He has tasted of the 
strength of its punishment, and why should He 
fear? He plainly sees the righteousness of the 
punishment of the evildoers. He also sees that 
a sinner suffers only to the extent of the value 
of the law broken. 

A man with fear in his heart is a coward, 
and will never refrain from any sin that he thinks 
he can hide. But the candidate with ''feare" 
coming over him will immediately begin the 
necessary steps for unloading his soul of its evil 
characteristics, whether they are open or in 
secret. 

The next step we notice our ''feareful" 
candidate taking is listening to the voice of the 
preachers, reading his Bible, and also following 



152 The Truth of the Hour. 

with close proximity to the still, small voice 
from within. He hears the story about the 
crucified Saviour Whose blood was shed for the 
redemption of the sinner. He begins to believe 
in the aid sent from heaven, with the promise 
to prevent the temptations above that which he 
is able to bear. 

When he learns from the Scriptures that 
there is a possibility — there is even a probability 
— of forgiveness for his past sins, there imme- 
diately comes forth a rejoicing — the fruit of the 
Spirit known as joy. Whether this is the false 
joy that comes from the coward, or whether it 
is the real joy that comes from a brave man, is 
determined in this world only by the Holy Spirit 
or the member of the church possessing the 
discernment gift. 

The coward and the brave-man candidate 
continue on in their joy, both of them usually 
of the belief that they are converted. 

It would hardly be possible for them to 
conceive that they had made only two effective 
steps into the Christian experiences. Indeed, 
they are a long way off from the converted con- 
dition required; but the brave man will in all 
cases continue* his line unto the end. He is the 
one that is in the proper sphere to receive the 



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Key that will unlock his door to the Christian's 
faith. 

Many are in the field today rejoicing in 
their hearts that they have escaped hell, but 
the truth of it is they are on their present road 
because of cowardice. They have not and will 
never receive the Key that unlocks the door. 

Joy, the First Outward Sign. 

After this joy has had its certain time to 
work on the candidate he immediately plunges 
into the field to convert others. Poor soul! 
Little does he know that God is sending him 
into the experiences for his own benefit, and 
not for others. 

We must note that the next fruit of the 
Spirit is peace. As he has received his second 
degree by the natural law order of initiation, 
now he is in order for the third degree. That 
characteristic of unrest that once possessed his 
soul must now be substituted by the sweet 
jewel of peace. 

What effect does missionary battling have 
on the candidate? Can we recall the many 
curious testimonies of the new recruit in the 
missionary battle? But why does he not capture 
many victims? Why is it that these new con- 



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verts, as they are called, are allowed to plunge 
right into the home missionary work? Instead 
of accomplishing anything, they are always more 
or less criticized. The real truth of the matter 
is: He has not been converted, and is in the 
missionary battle for himself and not for others. 

Is not this the natural way to mold into 
the human soul the fruit of the Spirit known as 
peace? Think again. If we want an unpeaceful 
character changed to a peaceful one, by what 
law is it done? The answer is found in the 
words from Natural Law. ''Spare the rod and 
spoil the child." 

When is an army most quiet and peaceful? 
When they have been kept lying around and 
out of battle for years? No. When they are 
returning from a battle in which they have been 
unquestionably whipped and the rod of hardships 
has been freely used. 

Take the man that is called a ''bully" of 
your community and find out the natural law 
method for making him peaceful. Get his 
superior and give him a good, fair whipping. 
Do not spare the rod on the "bully" and he will 
become as peaceful as a lamb. 

After four years of fighting, mixed with 
hardships and scarcity of food and clothing, 



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from '61 to '65, the American soldier returned 
to his home in such a peaceful state of mind 
that astonishing comments came from other 
nations regarding the North and South resigning 
to almost instant peace. The North and South 
both had enough. They were unquestionably 
whipped. 

So in the Christian work and experiences 
it is very necessary that the candidate imme- 
diately plunge into the missionary battle, which 
he does without much coaxing, his first charges 
usually being made on his nearest relatives. 
Of course, all those who have not experienced 
his particular kind of joy make fun and declare 
he is crazy. He thinks he is converted, and can 
not understand v/hy they do not listen to him 
in his great message of salvation. It is not 
usually long until all the enthusiasm is driven 
out of the candidate, and he really begins to 
acquire a peaceful disposition. He has now 
passed through this experience, and still he has 
not acquired but three characteristics out of the 
necessary nine. 

The Fourth. 

The next one necessary for him is the fruit 
of long-suffering. This is likewise done by the 
natural law of experiences. The Civil War vet- 



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eran returned to his home only to find the accom- 
plishments of many years preceding the war in 
ruins. Their abundant supply of food was gone 
and a new supply of clothing was needed. 

Before he could find himself enjoying the 
financial blessing as before the war, he had to 
harden himself to the situation and get right 
dowm to business and rebuild that which he 
had lost. The missionary soldier will lose friends 
and friendship of dear relatives during his 
soldiery. He will find that he has lost all, and 
that by the time he gains new friends and 
relatives the fruit of long-suffering will be well 
developed. 

The Fifth. 

The next mentioned is the fruit of gentle- 
ness. The candidate must prove himself to be 
gentle and kind, even under some of the most 
trying and difficult circumstances. Backed by 
the promise of God that nothing shall happen 
to us but such as is common to man, and that 
He will also not allow us tempted above that 
which we are able to bear, the candidate may 
proceed with sufficient confidence that he may 
sooner or later become a perfect gentleman. 

An imaginary glimpse at the cowboy taming 
the wild horse on the Western frontier will sug 



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gest the natural law process, and a sensible form 
of how the animal of man is tamed and the fruit 
of gentleness is successfully created within him. 

Physically speaking, the horse is harder to 
tame than a man, but the horse only resists to 
the extent of his physical strength. The man 
is much harder to tame because he resists, not 
physically, but mentally. The mind of man is 
a concrete house of determination, full of de- 
stroying and death-dealing law, and nothing can 
open the door but the Key to the Kingdom 
of God. 

The problem of ''gentleing" is far more diffi- 
cult with the animal of humanity than with 
horses. There are far less per cent of candidates 
become real Christian gentlemen as required of 
them in the Christian life than there are of 
horses as required of them in the live-stock and 
farm industry. 

The cowboy uses the horse and use makes 
him gentle; likewise, God begins to use the 
candidate to make him gentle. Like the horse, 
he is first used in the things that are of not 
much importance — the things that work more 
on him than on the others, as has been men- 
tioned. 



158 The Truth of the Hour, 

So many times the candidate falls so far 
short of acting the gentleman that the Holy 
Spirit is grieved at the failure, because nothing 
is required of us that cannot be accomplished. 

The Sixth. 

The Fruit of Goodness. 

As we go further in our investigation, the 
fruits seem to get larger. This trait of character 
covers such a broad scope of the territory of love 
that it has a marked resemblance of the Whole. 
Its height and depth seem to be so far-reaching 
that it would eliminate all necessity for any 
other trait. 

If the candidate could only realize the abso- 
lute necessity for being good, he could probably 
soon learn how to be good. 

There could be such a difference in the 
worldian's imaginary view of Christ. Individual 
after individual, church after church, and nation 
after nation, have failed because of the person- 
nel's inappreciation of the far-reaching conse- 
quence of the trait of goodness. 

People should not be good because their 
neighbor is good, or because God wants them 
to be good, but be good from a natural feeling, 
regardless of what the second or third party 



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does. If we find it is not natural with us to be 
good, we should be on our knees in our private 
closet, pointing the evil out to the living God, 
who is working even then on the candidate 
with all earnestness to create within him that 
natural feeling of goodness. It is doubtless the 
case that many candidates never get past this 
trait of goodness during their entire attendance 
in the school of the angels for Christian educa- 
tion. So many of us do not realize that the 
angels of the Lord educated Adam and Eve; 
they educated Christ; and are just as willing to 
stand by us and educate us. The only thing that 
can stand in the way is our own mind. Beware 
lest there comes a day when we refuse to proceed. 
Beware lest we reject some truth of a certain 
hour. 

What does it matter about the religion of 
the other party involved? What does it matter 
if they are not as good as they should be? Their 
condition should not stand in the path of our 
blessing of goodness, and for our own sakes not 
one chance should escape us in being good under 
any and all circumstances. 



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The Seventh. 
Without Faith It Is Impossible to Please God. 

Faith is what we might call one of the 
preferred fruits in the character of Christ. It is 
not greater than the whole, but it is among the 
greatest of the parts. 

We have passed through six degrees of our 
initiation, and faith has not been mixed with us. 
We have proceeded thus far on this f-e-a-r, or the 
^J-e-a-r-e.'' We have made it thus far on one 
of the two characteristics. It is hoped, however, 
that the candidate has the latter. If he has the 
latter mentioned, we may expect him to graduate 
in this seventh lesson. 

There are two kinds of faith, or, we may 
better say, they form two specifically separate 
missions. One has a mission to the church as 
a gift. All church members do not have the 
gift of faith, but we will not treat with it now. 

We will treat with the individual faith — the 
faith of the fruit of the Spirit. For convenience' 
sake, it will be well to call it fruit-faith. Every 
candidate must have fruit-faith to be accepted 
by the Lord. Without the fruit-faith it is im- 
possible to please God. 

^' Faith Cometh by hearing, and hearing by 
the word of God." (Romans 10 : 17.) 



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''This only would I learn of you, Received 
ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the 
hearing of faith? 

''Are ye so foolish? having begun in the 
Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? 

"Have ye suff'ered so many things in vain? 
If it be yet in vain. 

"He therefore that ministereth to you the 
Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth 
he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing 
of faith? 

"Even as Abraham believed God, it was 
accounted to him for righteousness." (Gala- 
tions 3 : 2-6.) 

The Scriptures quoted seem to decide 
that after a man has heard God's word it is 
then required of him to have individual faith. 
The "feare" on which he started has sustained 
him until he has arrived at this hour of his school- 
ing. The candidate must now yield himself to 
this degree and become one who has faith in 
God in all individual matters. 

A soft, pious, sentimental or religious and 
long-faced belief is not faith. All religions are 
founded on a belief and fear, but they are not 
faith. Devils believe and tremble. They believe 
God, and tremble at the punishment that they 



162 The Truth of the Hour. 

know the laws they have honored will justly 
administer. They are cowardly, and therefore 
tremble. 

Satan placed Christ on a high pinnacle and 
said to Him: Cast thyself down: for it is 
written, 'He shall give His angels charge con- 
cerning thee : and in their hands they shall bear 
thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot 
against a stone. 

The Scripture that Satan chose to quote 
shows conclusively that his fear was of the nature 
that he would hurt his foot. If he jumped from 
the pinnacle his fear would be of breaking his 
leg or arm. 

But Christ's ''feare" was a different kind. 
Christ was not a coward. Even death held no 
horrors for him. He answered Satan and said: 
''Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." 
(Matt. 4 : 7.) His "feare" was that He would 
displease God. Otherwise He would have 
jumped from any place, regardless of broken 
ankles and blistered feet. 

"Faith is the substance of a thing hoped 
for, the evidence of a thing not seen" (Hebrews 
11 : 1). Substance might be explained as the 
thing being prayed for; the "evidence" is the 
prayer answered. If the candidate is sick and 



My Last Call. 163 

he prays to get well, recovery is the ''substance 
of the thing hoped for," and ''recovered" is the 
evidence of the thing he did not see. Recovered 
is the evidence of fruit-faith. 

Fruit-faith is a power that will influence 
God for the individual needs. The candidate 
who started out with the "feare" of God in his 
heart, whose heart and soul are set on a righteous 
purpose, can influence God for his personal needs. 

A candidate who is always serving God and 
never being served has the fear of a coward in 
his heart, and therefore he is not a Christian. 

Peter, in his ignorance, attempted to object 
to the Saviour's service to him, but Jesus 
quickly and cautiously warned him: "If I 
serve thee not thou hast no part with me." 

A candidate with the fruit-faith must be 
able to prevail with the Lord and influence Him 
to do as requested. Of course, this does not 
mean a man who is at odds with the plan of 
God, but it does mean that the candidate who 
is in harmony with the plans of God can influ- 
ence Him to do things equal to his standing 
with God. 

There are so many candidates in the field 
with fear in their hearts. They are actually 
afraid of God. Even some ministers are in the 



164 The Truth of the Hour, 

pulpit through cowardice. They acknowledge 
incidentally that they would not be preaching 
the Gospel if they did not want to escape hell. 
Such cowards they are! They are afraid of 
punishment, and have only attempted to escape 
it. Can we suppose that such people will ever 
pass into eternal life? The answer is that they 
will not. All heaven is particularly organized 
against such people. What would such people 
do after they passed to that stage of life where 
there is no more danger of punishment for sin? 
It is onl^^ natural that they would no longer 
refuse to sin. To show that they may never 
enter the kingdom we ma^^ go back to the third 
chapter of Genesis and there see what precau- 
tions have been made to prevent such people 
from eternal life. ''So he drove out the man: 
and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden 
Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned 
every way, to keep the way of the tree of life" 
(Gen. 3 :24). 

''O foolish Galatians that they are." For 
the only candidate that God will accept is the 
man who sought righteousness on its merits 
and not one seeking a reward. The man who 
has that supreme desire for righteousness will 
learn it from God by a fruit-faith sufficiently 
that he may please God. 



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CHAPTER XV. 

A Prayer of Fruit-Faith. 

It must be remembered that Christ was a 
man. He was born of a woman. He was flesh 
and blood, subject to the same difficulties and 
weaknesses of other men. To overcome these 
human weaknesses He was necessarily baptized 
with the Holy Spirit and with Fire, the same 
which all candidates for heaven must pass 
through. 

''And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, 
returned from Jordan and was led by the Spirit 
into the wilderness (Luke 4:1; also Matt. 
4:1). 

Jesus went through this school and was 
educated by the angels of the Lord. The follow- 
ing is a specimen of one of His prayers at the 
time when the weakness of the flesh was most 
conspicuous during the life of the Saviour. 

The Prayer in the Garden. 

''Then he saith unto them, my soul is 
exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death: tarry 
ye here, and watch with me. 



166 The Truth of the Hotcr. 

''And he went a little farther, and fell on 
his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it 
be possible, let this cup pass from me! never- 
theless, not as I will, but as Thou wilt. 

''And he cometh unto the disciples, and 
findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, 
What, could ye not watch with me one hour? 

"Watch and pray, that ye enter not into 
temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but 
the flesh is weak." 

There are several points about this prayer 
in which are good lessons. The flesh was weak. 
He acknowledges that the flesh was having 
influence. Just a few minutes before He had 
told them that He would die and be raised 
again the third day, but now He finds Himself 
praying to escape that which He knew to be 
God's will. 

We see that it is not in accordance with 
the mind, even though the mind is educated on 
the point, to always do God's will. We see that 
it is the fruit-faith that causes the flesh and 
spirit of the brave man to yield. 

Each time He prayed to escape the will of 
God, the fruit-faith would again assert itself 
and cause the tongue to correct the prayer, and 
pray for the fulfillment of God's plan. 



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The candidate should take this lesson seri- 
ously, for probably he has now been in the 
school of Christian experiences long enough that 
he should know the Scriptures pretty well. He 
should know whether a thing for which he is 
praying is God's will. If it is scripturall}^ 
promised, he should not ask for it, then add: 
''Not my will, but Thine, be done." Such prayers 
are inconsistently ugly. The fact that it is 
promised in the Scriptures is sufficient evidence 
that it is His will. When we make those incon- 
sistent requests, we are misusing the pure fruit- 
bearing principles that Christ's experience in 
the Garden is supposed to teach. 

When the candidate is praying for some- 
thing that is not promised, he then has a right 
to doubt the reception of same; in which case 
he may add: ''Not my will, but Thine, be done." 
The words themselves, as in Christ's case, 
express doubt of receiving what is being asked 
for. 

Candidates w^ill not only receive things that 
are scripturally promised, but many times can 
get things that are not scripturally denied if 
they ask believing. 

People who follow the Spirit of God will 
not be allowed to pray for things that will be 
denied them; just exactly as was the case with 



168 The Truth of the Hour. 

Christ. He went through a great ordeal, and 
the flesh longed and yearned to escape that 
death; nevertheless, the Spirit of God prevented 
Him from offering a prayer in pleading in full to 
escape the death. 

So if a candidate is allowed by the Holv 
Spirit to pray for a thing, that same Spirit will 
see that he gets it. In fact, the arrangements 
have already been made for him to get it when 
Vhe prayer is allowed by the Spirit to be offered. 

Christ's Sermon on the Mount. 

(Matthew 6 : 7.) 

When ye pray do not use vain repetitions, 
as the heathens do. They think they will be 
heard for their much speaking. Repetitions, 
of course, mean speaking the same things 
vainly — some two, three, four or more times. 
If Jesus does not hear a prayer in few words, 
much speaking will not incline His ear; especially 
much public speaking. 

In teaching us to pray a brief prayer. He 
enumerated the few essentials to life. To sub- 
stantiate His doctrine of short public prayers, 
He incorporated the words: ''Thy will be done, 
on earth as it is in heaven." 



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The prayer mentions some of the essentials 
to life, and then: ^'Thy will be done, on earth 
as it is in heaven" is a scientific wording that 
incorporates all essentials and excludes any 
necessity of repetition. It covers all the essen- 
tials, whether mentioned or not, and by no 
means does it imply that God will be slack in 
supplying the needs in any individual case. 

If the candidate believes that God will ful- 
fill the biblical promises, the public prayer need 
not be longer than the one outlined by Jesus. 
The more words the candidate adds to it, the 
weaker is his faith. 

Sure Sign of the Hypocrite. 

''And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be 
as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray 
standing in the synagogues and in the corners 
of the streets, that they may be seen of men. 
Verily I say unto you. They have their reward. 

But thou, when thou prayest, enter thy 
closet, and when thou hast shut the door, pray 
to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father 
which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. 

But when ye pray use not vain repetitions,, 
as the heathens do. For they think they shall 
be heard for their much speaking. 



170 The Truth of the Hour. 

''Be not ye therefore like unto them: for 
your Father knoweth what things ye have need 
of before ye ask Him. 

''After this manner therefore pray ye: Our 
Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy 
narne. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, 
in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day 
our daily bread ; and forgive us our debts, as w^e 
forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temp- 
tation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is 
the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for 
ever. Amen." 

It cannot be considered as a mere coin- 
cidence that Christ gave this prayer, but it 
should be an actual condition of the heart of 
the true candidate. That prayer is a looking- 
glass through which the man with "feare" may 
look in the face of his own character; and like- 
wise by its reflection the true candidate can 
recognize the voice of the hypocritical, selfish 
spirit as he listens to him pour out his long 
prayers from the altars of the. church and other 
places of public worship. 

The fruit-faith will hold a tongue in check, 
and keep it from praying long and hypocritical 
prayers in every true candidate. 



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CHAPTER XVI. 

The Spirit of Meekness Is a Tamed Tongue. 

The candidates seem to be prone to jump 
about and evade their lessons coming in psycho- 
logical order. How essential does it really seem 
that the candidate take a thorough course in the 
school of faith before being admitted into the 
room where meekness is taught. 

Meekness, being, a tamed tongue, makes it 
one of the most essential characteristics to be 
developed in the character of the Christian. It 
is so essential for it to be developed thoroughly 
and accurately that the candidate is put through 
the schoolroom of faith directly in company with 
the angels of the Lord before the attempt is made 
to drill him in the science of meekness. 

Note the Scriptures on this point. 

''For in many things we offend all. If any 
man offend not in word, the same is a perfect 
man, and able also to bridle the whole body 
.... Even so the tongue is a little member, 
and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a 
matter a little fire kindleth! 



172 The Truth of the Hour. 

"And the tongue is a fire, a world of 
iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, 
that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on 
fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of 
hell. 

''For every kind of beasts, and of birds, 
and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is 
tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But 
the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly 
evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we 
God, even the Father; and therewith curse we 
men, which are made after the similitude of God. 

''Out of the same mouth proceedeth bles- 
sings and cursings. My brethren, these things 
ought not so to be." 

This closes the scriptural condemnation of 
the tongue of man. But the particular thing in 
this scriptural reference is the fact that man 
cannot tame that evil monster. There need not 
be further questioning as to why the candidate 
should pass through the schoolroom where that 
individual faith is taught and where that Spirit 
of the Holy God of Heaven can take complete 
hold on man and his tongue and train it and then 
guide it. 

We are soon to approach the study of the 
gifts to the church, and the candidate should 
keep this lesson fresh in his mind in connection 



My Last Call. 173 

with the gift of tongues and the absurdity of 
some who oppose the gift of unknown tongues. 

Referring to our former lesson, where the 
candidate is crossing the field, we can see how 
utter useless for those who fear, to be in the 
field just because they want to escape the judg- 
ment of hell. We may plainly and easily see 
that righteousness can only come to those who 
really ''feare" evil because of the merit of 
righteousness. How does a candidate feel when 
his brother steps into the pulpit and tells what 
a great sacrifice he has made to become a 
Christian? If righteousness is meritorious and 
a reward of itself, how can a man make a just 
claim that he has sacrificed anything? What 
did he have to sacrifice? Answer: A sinful 
character. Then what has his sacrifice been? 
A sinful character. What is his reward? A 
righteous character. Then what is he grieving 
about? Of course, he is grieving about his loss 
of the evil character which he loved, and still 
loves. Why does he not go back to his evil 
character? Because he is a coward and wants 
to get over into eternal life. He wants to pass 
the danger of the sufferings due an evil character. 

The candidate need not worry about such 
a brother, for it is only a matter of time till he 
will complete the route of the wicked. 



174 The Truth of the Hour, 

There are some who really offend by being 
too quiet. The real science of a tamed tongue 
is talking not too much and not too little. 

When the candidate fails in the tamed 
tongue, he spoils the finishing touch that a 
tamed tongue gives the character, and unless 
we acquire this spirit of meekness we can never 
hope to develop into that Christian character 
that will be translated. 

Ninth Degree. 
Temperance is the Last Named, but Not the Least. 

The temperance-fruit is named lastly, for 
which we note two good reasons: First, we 
should pass through the lesson of faith before 
we can become evenly temperate. Some seem 
to think that totally abstaining from certain 
foods and stimulants is temperance, but it is 
not so. Total abstinence is the other extreme 
from total indulgence. It comes from a weakness 
of faith in the Lord, and usually manifests itself 
in non-belief of His ability or willingness to 
cleanse meats and other foods in answer to 
prayer. 

Second, those who begin too soon in the 
study of temperance seem to never realize that 
the righteous man's temperance means and does 



My Last Call. 175 

apply to all things. Total abstinence from any- 
thing is a privilege to the individual case, and 
by no means is it a set rule to apply to all alike. 

Christ said: ''That which entereth into the 
body defileth not the man, but that which pro- 
ceedeth from the heart defileth him." Meats 
temperately eaten are the natural support of the 
body, but m.eats intemperately eaten are of the 
evils which proceedeth from the heart, which 
defileth the whole body. The total abstinence 
we have recommended in the Bible are called 
''fasts," in which we are promised great blessings. 

Candidates attempt to be initiated into the 
ninth degree before they have been instructed 
in the fruit-faith, or seventh degree, which causes 
delusions of the mind, and they are liable to 
abstain from necessary foods and in some cases 
they have died. 

Temperance is by no means confined to 
foods for the body, but it likewise covers every 
characteristic in connection with the initiative 
spirit of man to follow his doctrine — his fad — 
trying to make a whole out of a part, and 
attempting to over-indulge on any fundamental 
or less valuable characteristic of the human or 
godly character. 



176 The Truth of the Hour. 

The Second Initiation. 

The initiation into the nine fruits of the 
Spirit may be termed as the safe entrance into 
the Holy place of the earthly experiences. Love 
is the whole; it is the Most Holy place in the 
earth; it is the last initiation. 

Molding of the nine fruits of the Spirit into 
the candidate is more of a private nature and 
for the individual result, but God has another 
blessing for this individual. He also wants the 
message to be effectively carried to others. 

The candidate is now nearing the house of 
the Father, and it is very necessary to beautify 
the character with such a lucid finish that not 
even the devils can cry out with any truthful 
accusation against him. When the candidate 
has passed through these second nine degrees, 
then the decree will go forth that he is a con- 
verted soul and ready for the Kingdom. 

Probably many men have looked with much 
surprise on the declaration made by the apostle 
Paul as set forth in the thirteenth chapter of 
I Corinthians. 

''Though I speak with the tongues of men 
and of angels and have not charity, I am become 
as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. 



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"And though I have the gift of prophecy, and 
understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and 
though I have all faith, so I could remove 
mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 

*'And though I bestow all my goods to feed 
the poor, and though I give my body to be 
burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me 
nothing." 

''Charity suffereth long." This is love in 
patience. 

''Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed 
up." This is love in humility and education in 
the proper knowledge. 

Charity envieth not. This is love in 
generosity, free home and a free heart. 

Charity doth not behave itself unseemly. 
This is love in courtesy and politeness. 

Charity seeketh not her own. This is love 
in its unselfishness. Seeketh her own and then 
sacrifice it? No. Love seeketh not her own. 

Charity is not easily provoked. This is 
love in good temper. 

Charity thinketh no evil. This is love in 
guilelessness. 

Charity rejoiceth not in iniquity, but re- 
joiceth in the truth. This is love in sincerity. 



178 The Truth of the Hour. 

These complete the stature of a perfect man. 
This kind of a Christian can ''beareth all things." 
''Believeth all things." Hopeth all things." 
' 'Endure th all things." 

These characteristics are in relations to life 
and are the reflections of the daily life of the 
converted soul. 

There are eighteen distinct degrees in the 
initiation of a person into a converted life. Nine 
of them get the candidate's name endorsed before 
the Lord and conforms him to the first four of 
the ten commandments, which introduce him in 
this light: ''He has loved the Lord his God with 
all his mind and soul." 

The last six of the ten commandments is 
the candidate's duty to humanity. The initia- 
tion into the last nine degrees conforms him to 
the last six commandments and introduces him 
in this light: "He has loved his neighbor as 
himself." 

When this decree goes forth, then it will be 
declared in heaven that the candidate is a con- 
verted soul and then that sentence which stands 
out against every son of Adam will be eradicated : 
"Except thou become converted." 



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CHAPTER XVII. 
Come Out of Her, My People (Rev. 18:4). 

If you are a member of the church, which 
fear(e) have you? What was the first principle 
that prompted you to leave the sinful life? Did 
you fear the evil results of sin, or do you ''feare" 
God to give glory to Him by doing and yearning 
to be more righteous continually? 

God makes an earnest appeal to the children 
in that He counsels of them to buy of Him gold 
tried in the fire. (Rev. 3 : 16-19.) 

God says, buy of me gold tried in the fire, 
that thou mayest be rich, in white raiment, that 
thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of 
thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine 
eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. Be- 
cause thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with 
goods (knowledge of the Scripture)) and have 
need of nothing (no other teacher), and knowest 
not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and 
poor, and blind, and naked. 

''As many as I love I rebuke and chasten; 
be zealous therefore and repent." 

This Scripture could apply to anybody in 
the wide world who thinks he is God's child. 



180 The Truth of the Hour. 

No man has a right to even claim he is a child, 
of the living God and yet not apply this Scrip- 
ture to himself. 

Those of this hour who deny the Scripture 
applies to them make it doubly sure that it is 
directed to them. It says: ''They do not know 
they are in this miserable state of condition. 
Also: ''As many as I love I rebuke and chasten; 
be zealous therefore and repent." 

This is not bringing a new revelation, but 
just to remind them of the things He has said 
and done ; to remind them that they must accept 
the gift of the Holy Spirit and that the harvest 
is near. 

The sin of the church must be pointed out 
before probation closes forever. 

What Is Sin? 

Breaking a Commandment of God. 

God's people are surely breaking a com- 
mandment. There must be a truth of the hour 
that they are failing to grasp. They are failing 
to personify some law that connects the infinite 
chain and thus breaks the whole law. 

Yes; they have taken some of the very 
customs of the other churches which, in times 
past, they have branded as untrue. 



My Last- Call 181 

They are breaking the plan of God — not a 
plan that I alone have proclaimed, but the very- 
plan that they know to exist, because they have 
heretofore proclaimed it. 

The error lies in the rejection of the gifts 
to the church. There are not many that under- 
stand the gifts any better than some of the 
leaders who have proclaimed them; yet, know- 
ing the truth as they do, serves all the more for 
a severe condemnation. For it is a very objec- 
tionable people who know the truth and will not 
practice it. 

With reference to the gifts, Paul said: 

''Now, concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, 
I would not have you ignorant. 

''Now there are diversities of gifts, but the 
same spirit. 

"And there are differences of administra- 
tions, but the same Lord. 

"And there are diversities of operations, but 
it is the same God which worketh all in all. 

"But the manifestation of the Spirit is given 
to every man to profit with all. 

"For to one is given, by the Spirit, the word 
of wisdom; to another, the word of knowledge; 
by the same Spirit; 



182 The Truth of the Hour. 

To another faith, to another the gift of 
heahng, 

To another discernment of spirits, to 
another divers kinds of tongues, to another 
interpretation of tongues. (I Cor. 12:1-10). 

There must be something serious in case 
we should be in ignorance concerning them, or 
evidently Paul would not have been so con- 
cerned about the matter. I fully believe with 
Paul that it will prove serious with everyone 
who is in ignorance about the gifts of the Spirit. 
I see it just as Paul did, and testify with him 
that we should not be in ignorance concerning 
them. 

But now hath God set the members (gifts) 
in the body every one as it hath pleased Him. 
This He did because it is the only law and 
method by w^hich He can present the church to 
Himself a pure and spotless Virgin. 

Christ came to earth, and He found the 
church in no condition for Him to unite with it. 
The church rejected Him; then He went into 
a far country. This time before His return He 
is going to have that church made spotless. 
There will be no reprimanding when He comes. 
He will have the reward with Him to give to 
every man according to his works. 



My^ Last Call, 183 

The cleansing of the church will be done 
through the medium of the Holy Spirit. It will 
be done by the fruits being molded into the 
individual and the gifts being distributed among 
the members of the church as the Spirit sees fit. 

We understand that when God decrees that 
He has set the gifts here and there in the church, 
man should not interfere with them, but that 
does not say that the Holy Spirit will use any 
specific power to prevent it. The fact that a 
person has been ordained, or has gained some 
official position in the church, by no means gives 
him authority to change God's plan. The leader 
is just as subject to following the Holy Spirit's 
instructions in the setting up of the gifts in the 
church as the layman. In fact, it is the leader's 
place to recommend that God lead in all under- 
takings, not only in word, but in deed. 

He discovered the law by which His people 
should be delivered, and He would like that His 
people yield to the Voice of the Holy Spirit 
instead of yielding to the suggestions of the 
human mind. 

He has defined the natural way of molding 
the fruits into the individual and the gifts into 
the church so as to produce a perfect church 



184 The Truth of the Hour, 

body, which will be necessary, as we are now 
nearing the hour of translation. 

With further reference to the gifts, the Lord 
said: 

''If the foot (one of the gifts) shall say, 
Because I am not the hand, I am not of the 
body; is it therefore not of the body? If the 
whole were the hearing, where were the smell- 
ing?" (I Cor. 12 : 15, 17.) 

These questions no doubt signify that the 
church body cannot be affected because some 
person possessing some gift might, through his 
ignorance, deny that he belongs to the church 
with the infinite law. 

The gifts are all given by the same Spirit, 
and because one man has the gift of tongues and 
another a gift of knowledge, it will do neither of 
them any good to deny that they belong to a 
church possessing other gifts. 

The church of God is designated by the law 
and prophecy. 

The warning is to those possessing gifts and 
yet denying their brotherly connection with 
those who possess knowledge of the law. One 
gift can magnify and help another gift, and 
knowledge can help these people with other gifts 
if they will not reject it. 



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CHAPTER XVIII. 

A Distinction Between the Gift of Knowl- 
edge, AND Talent, and Education. 

It seems to be an unbroken custom to con- 
fuse talent and gifts. The gift of knowledge, 
talent and education seems to have never been 
distinctly separated, and will not now be unless 
we study definitely on this thought. 

Talent is a natural gift, imparted to all men 
alike, according to the situation in which he 
entered, and is maintained in the world. Edu- 
cation is the foremost means of developing that 
talent, but neither of the two is even the funda- 
mental principle or by-product of the gift of 
knowledge from the Bible standpoint of view. 
They could possibly be called helps to that gift 
if the possessor is perfectly humble; but by no 
means is the gift of knowledge dependent on 
either. Why? Because the Lord is able to give 
the gift of knowledge to one who has neither 
talent nor education. 

The biblical gift of knowledge will open an 
avenue to create both talent and education, but 
either one, or both, of the latter cannot bring 
in the former. 



186 The Truth of the Hour. 

The gift of knowledge comes after the mind 
has been quickened by the Holy Angel of the 
Lord so the person may understand the Deca- 
logue, its immutability, its application, and co- 
ordination with God in both concrete and ab- 
stract form. It was not instituted into the 
Gospel and church work with the intention of 
it embracing the territory possible to be covered 
by talent and education, but, by the mind being 
quickened by the Holy Spirit, it naturally pro- 
vides greater room and power for talent and 
education to grow in the person. 

It is possible that very talented men receive 
the knowledge gift, and then allow their talents 
to have all the honors and soul praise for the 
successes. Instead of their talent and education 
being used in sanctity for the honor and glory 
of the Knowledge-gift, it is reversed and the 
latter is used to aid and further the cause of 
the former (man exalted; God's power debased). 

Talent, education and the gift of knowl- 
edge being confounded, become what is biblically 
called puffed-up knowledge. Much knowledge 
''puffeth up," says Paul. 

It is easy to recognize when talent and 
education are trespassing on the rights of the 
gifts. 



My Last Call. 187 

For instance, if I be a physician, and if I go 
out and practice on the sick and cite them to 
my knowledge of the law of God, and convey the 
idea to them that I am healing them in God's 
divine way, even though I am using the same 
healing m.ethods that my competitor is using, 
and the same any "worldlian" could use by 
studying and preparing for such use, and so 
teach and conduct myself as to convey the idea 
that my hands are divinely blessed over and 
above my competitor, then I am misusing my 
knowledge of the Scriptures to play upon the 
religious sentiment of others and promote my 
talent and education. 

It is entirely probable that some physicians 
have had their eyes widely opened concerning 
the law of God; but the physician makes a 
grave error when he hangs out his temporal law 
sign as a Christian doctor if he uses similar 
methods of healing that his competitor does. 
If there be any special blessing more for one 
physician than another, it is because of the 
moral standing of the patient with the Lord, 
rather than the physician who is making such 
Christian claims. 

When knowledge (talent and education) 
gets in power in the church, it becomes ''pufifed 
up" (politically developed) and then begins to 



188 The Truth of the Hour. 

try to do the work of all the gifts. It will heal, 
speak in the tongues, interpret, demand under- 
standing of miracles or denounce them, discern 
(judge, excommunicate and rule by power of 
organization) ; it will do the work of the gift 
of faith, the gift of wisdom and prophecy. 

It seems conflicting to use the words edu- 
cation and knowledge in a combative sense, for 
the two words really should define alike. Of 
course, they could define alike if it were not 
erring humanity whose daily lives are supposed 
to define them. 

Knowledge is entitled to a higher and more 
superior definition than that of education, and 
is here treated in the sense of high education 
concerning eternal law, as taught the individual 
by communicating angels. Education is con- 
fined to the sense of temporal law. 

It may not appeal to the reader, but it does 
to the writer, that the political characteristic of 
man must be kept in mind while defining man's 
use of his education. When we stop to seriously 
consider the real nature of man, we must con- 
clude that one of his foremost traits is political, 
and all our education is usually focused along 
the direct line of developing that political 
nature. We may trace humanity to any of its 
places of abode, the church, state, fraternal, 



My Last Call. 189 

professional, laborer or commercial organiza- 
tions, and we will find the political character- 
istic varying only in degree. 

Talent and education unite with that politi- 
cal trait, and the three becoming united in one, 
they cause men to tread where an angel with the 
gift of knowledge would not go. 

When God takes a man who is void of 
education and gives him the gift of knowledge, 
he will be able, so far as proper advice is con- 
cerned, to put the man who has talent and 
education on the right road. 

The reason this is so paramount is because 
the gift of knowledge, like all other gifts, is 
demonstrated by the presence of the Holy Spirit, 
speaking through the man. 

We must watch closely for the political 
nature and note how it first begins to work in 
the church. It comes up unnoticed, and little by 
little, in this one and that, it begins to oppose 
the gifts. Of course, the Holy Spirit cannot 
dispose of these people, because He works 
scripturally : 

''The wheat and the tares must be allowed 
to continue together." 

The polite, diplomatic, talented and edu- 
cated leaders will explain here and there why 



190 The Truth of the Hour. 

the gifts are not in the church, while other 
leaders will write perfect articles on the doctrine 
of the gifts, and then some third polite leader 
wall cite the article and declare the gifts are in 
the church, and will endeavor to prove it by 
referring to some serious case some medical 
physician has raised up somewhere in some 
sanitarium. 

He also cites the fact that none of us could 
be raised up if it were not God's will; therefore, 
it is definitely concluded by the intelligent leader 
that the church has the gift of healing. 

The truth of the matter is that the church 
has rejected the gifts and tries to substitute 
all the functions of the gifts by talent and 
education. 

The politician later becomes bold and con- 
firms his rejection of the Holy Spirit by organ- 
izing the political influence here and there in the 
church until he gets the will of the majority of 
the personnel; then his court (with him as the 
chief justice) is formed for excommunicating and 
otherwise humiliating those who commit heretic 
offenses or trespass on their dignified feelings. 
The Holy Spirit allows all to remain together; 
but when a politician gets in the lead, with his 
.talent and education backing him, he takes more 
authority than has been given the angels of God. 



My Last Call. 191 

Politics were never endorsed by the Lord 
as a measure in the church, as was shown in the 
case of Judas. The Saviour could have easily 
spoken against Judas and had him expelled from 
the church, but it was not done, because political 
organization, as a church measure of love and 
discipline, is not endorsed. It is likewise shown 
in the case of selecting Judas' successor. The 
disciples cast a ballot to elect Matthias to succeed 
Judas, but the Lord took no particular notice 
of it, and later called the apostle Paul to fill 
the vacant place in the important twelve. 

Go further and note what Paul commanded 
concerning the gifts that are to be in the last 
church : 

The eye cannot say unto the hand, I have 
no need of thee; nor again, the head to the 
feet, I have no need of thee. (I Cor. 12 : 21). 

The verses formerly quoted were command- 
ments not to deny the connection or relation- 
ship to other gifts; and this is a commandment, 
that one gift cannot deny the need of another 
gift. 

The politically developed ones of the Laod- 
iceans are encouraging talent and education to 
perform the work of the other gifts, which dis- 
penses with all necessit}^ for the presence of the 



192 The Truth of the Hour. 

Holy Spirit and commonizes the church to the 
level of human talent and education. 

A person with a gift has no claim of being 
continuously under the power or influence of the 
Spirit for the performance of the function of 
that gift, but only during the time of the mani- 
festation of the gift. This thought is plainly 
brought out in the following scriptural reference: 

''But go rather to the lost sheep of the house 
of Israel. 

''And as ye go, preach, saying. The kingdom 
of heaven is at hand. 

"Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the 
dead, cast out devils, freely ye have received, 
freely give. 

"Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass 
in your purses, nor scrip for your journey, 
.... (Matt. 10 : 6-10.) 

More specific still are the nineteenth and 
twentieth verses: 

"But when they deliver you up, take no 
thought of how or what ye shall speak: for it 
shall be given you in that hour w^hat ye shall 
speak. 

"For it is not ye that speaketh, but the 
Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you." 



My Last Call. 193 

A gift is the ability to manifest or demon- 
strate the gift as instantaneously imparted by 
the Holy Spirit. It is not done by the power 
of knowledge. 

People who are subject to the power of 
manifesting a gift are not always under the 
influence of the Spirit, but at times are left to 
follow the dictates of their own conscience, the 
same as others w^ho have no gift. They are left 
to their own course probably a large portion of 
the time just the same as other people. 

Talent and education are able to organize, 
evangielize, preach, teach, etc., which is to say 
that even the most skeptical, yet zealous worker, 
probably through contention, may be just as 
efficient as any apparently staunch believer who 
is without a gift. 

If God did not require that His representa- 
tive be present during the manifestation of the 
gifts by the member, the gates of hell might be 
able to prevail against the church. God is not 
going to turn His work over to any man; there- 
fore, when man has a gift, it will be controlled 
by the Holy Angel of God. No man is going to 
have a gift to do as he pleases with, which he 
could certainly do as he pleased with it if he 
w^ere allowed to demonstrate it by the power of 
knowledge. In fact, that is the sole reason for 



194 The Truth of the Hour, 

there being so many different churches today. 
Men by the score have pretended to beheve, 
and by the power of talent and education they 
have started out with a certain form and certain 
principles for a doctrine, but there was nothing 
behind the movement except talent and educa- 
tion and, later, organization. 

When the church leaders are closely guard- 
ing their doctrine, disorganizing small churches, 
dismissing individuals and otherwise working to |, 
root out a supposed evil from their church body, , 
they have the fear not pertaining to faith and ' , 
love. They do not believe that the gates of 
hell cannot prevail against their cause. They do 
not believe and appreciate the fact that God has . 
angels taking care of His work, and thereby they \ 
fail to know for sure that their work is His work : 
else they would know that He would take care 
of it. 

It is this most damaging error, and into the 
hands of these most damaging politically char- 
acteristic leaders, that the church falls, which 
causes God to ''spue the church out of His 
mouth" (meaning, of course, to stop talking 
directly to them, and speaking through some 
one individually called). 



My Last Call. 195 



CHAPTER XIX. 

Salvation to Others Is Not Necessarily by 
THE Gift of Knowledge. 

If the gift of knowledge had embraced all 
the technical phases in connection with the 
church work and included all the work that is 
done by talent and education, verily righteous- 
ness and salvation would have been by knowl- 
edge, to the exclusion of all the other gifts; and 
thus only the wise and educated could ever see 
the kingdom. 

Why should we need the gift of healing to 
tell us the needs of the sick? If knowledge is 
sufficient to do the work of the gift of healing, 
then why does the Bible speak of such a useless 
gift? Why should we need the gift of discern- 
ment to tell us that some one is committing a sin 
(breaking the law) when we can see it by knowl- 
edge of the act itself? 

Why should the Bible mention the gift of 
tongues when we can study a few years in 
school and learn most any language? Why 
should the Bible mention a gift of interpreta- 
tion of tongues, when after we have learned the 
foreign language we can surely interpret it? Or 



196 The Truth of the Hour. 

why should the Bible speak of any other gift 
when by talent and education we can perform 
any of them? ''Knowledge" can tell us the 
things, and knowledge can do them. If our 
talents and education were intended to answer 
the problem and marvel of all the gifts, then it 
is foolishness for the Bible to have many of its 
pages blotted in narrating them. 

But instead of salvation coming by the gift 
of knowledge, it comes by the death of Christ, 
Who kept the knowledge (law) to perfection and 
knew no sin, and the infinite chain of law that 
had been broken by man in the fall has been 
infinitely kept by Christ and handed back to 
Jehovah, repaired to its original state. 

Since the reparation of the law by Christ's 
life, which was accomplished by angels guarding 
Him, and the renovation of it by His death on the 
cross, the Lord again hands it back to the church 
in what the Bible calls the Gift of Knowledge, 
which is the standard of that law magnified. 
The Gift of Knowledge is by no means intended 
to be a lifting power, but the standard to which 
the lifting powers are working. 

One gift is to help another gift, say the 
Scriptures. So the help that the Gift of Knowl- 
edge is to do toward the other gifts is merely 
to show forth the detailed life of Christ in living 



My Last Call. 197 

righteousness; the standard to which the other 
gifts must Hft the individual. Those members 
who think they have the Gift of Knowledge, and 
still think it their duty to perform the work of 
the other gifts, are in error. The Knowledge 
they have is merely talent and education, which 
is possible for the atheist, infidel or unbeliever. 

All the members of the church do not have 
the Gift of Knowledge, but they are brought 
into the purity of the pure knowledge by the 
function of some other gift. 

The member with the Gift of Knowledge 
can expound the brilliancy of the law probably 
in all its abstract and concrete forms, especially 
its forceful application in condemnation and 
redemption. Those who have other gifts feed 
upon the law by fragments, and also they feed 
the still more feeble sheep in like manner as 
the Holy Spirit directs from time to time, 
according to the mental digestive organs of such 
feeble ones in experience and faith. 

When those with the Gift of Knowledge 
begin to try to do the work of the other gifts, 
we know that they are falling away from their 
gift; and the political spirit is driving back the 
Holy Spirit because He does not lead only in 
the path of the right way, which is to say: 



198 The Truth of the Hour. 

Every gift must do its own duty and fill its 
own calling. 

The leaders are striving to substitute and 
do the work of the other gifts by the power of 
talent and education, which is the primary 
erroneous principle on which every church began 
its fall from the Garden of Eden to this day. 

Demonstrating the gifts by the power of 
talent and education is being done by all the 
churches, and God has already spued them out 
of His mouth (stopped talking directly to them). 

Each gift can do its own work just as posi- 
tively as any gift can do the work allotted to it. 
For instance, the gift of healing can heal without 
the man of ''knowledge" shouting 'Tlus the 
poultice." The reavSon is that the same Spirit 
who gave one gift can give another, and the 
Spirit who gives power for the merit of one gift 
can give the proper power for the other gift. 
(I Cor. 12 :4-12; also verses 21-24.) 

Everything can help everything else most 
effectively by attending to its own business most 
efficiently. 

If there be any doubt in our minds that the 
leading men in the church get a '*puffed-up" 
knowledge, we may read the following: 

''Now as things offered unto idols, we know 



My Last Call. 199 

that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth 
up, but charity edifieth" (I Cor. 8: 1.) 



How Knowledge Has Usurped the Author- 
ity OF THE Other Gifts. 

Why do we not see the great Pentecostal 
work of Christ in the church? Why do we not 
see the healing, miracles, casting out demons, 
the poor fed by the thousands, and other great 
things of divine xDrigin? The reason is plain. 
The supposed gift of knowledge has declared 
that it understands the things that are offered 
unto idols, and knowing these things it has 
decreed to keep a strict watch over all the 
members and allot to each one his work as he 
hath talent and education. 

Knowledge has taken the reins in its own 
hands and is guarding and guiding according to 
its own power. Because there are erroneous 
spirits in the world working and performing 
every imaginable fanatical ''stunt," the church's 
personnel thinks that God has set them as watch 
over each of the other gifts. In this manner 
the power and authority of all the other gifts 
are suppressed. 

The talented and educated leaders of the 
church are so sure that they are right in doing 



200 The Truth of the Hour, 

the work of the other gifts that they soon put 
on a bold front and advertise in the magazines, 
and otherwise, which shows more plainly in 
their hospital work: 'Trayer, plus the poultice." 

They seem to have no conscientious scrulpee 
at all when it comes to carving on the temple=^ 
of God There is positively no greater mani- 
festation of ridicule on faith, and the existence 
of a powerful and merciful God, than to see one 
man in fine health cutting and carving on another 
who is wasting away, they both claiming to be 
the Temples of God. 

''Ye are the Temple of God" (I Cor. 3 : 16, 
17). 

''Your body is the Temple of the Holy 
Ghost" (I Cor. 6 : 19). 

The physician grows more bold and changes 
his mode and daily practice, and instead of 
orayer, plus the poultice, it is "Poultice," then 
the "prayer." In plain words, they let their 
talent and education do all it can for the sick 
brother before they offer the prayer. 

God says that He should be first; but no, 
they say: "Let us do what we can first." "We 
believe that man's extremity is God's oppor- 
tunity." They try to make themselves, and 
people believe that they are doing God's supreme 



My Last Call 201 

will by trying in this manner to cure disease. 
The entire thing belongs to the political spirit 
and not the Holy Spirit. The political spirit 
will cut and carve the church membership to 
try to root out the evil, and in the similar 
manner it will cut and carve the human body 
to try to root out the evil of sickness. 

Surgery and medicines belong entirely to 
political talent and education, and are to be 
used only on those who do not believe in the 
mission of the Holy Spirit to give the fruits to 
the individual and the gifts to the church. 

The Gift of Divine Healing Explained. 

The gift of healing, as all other gifts, is a 
very simple matter to those who understand the 
calling and the personnel back of each gift. 

Faith for healing should first begin with the 
sick person. The candidate for heaven should 
be taught this primary faith during the time he 
is in the school of experiences by taking the 
fruit-faith lesson under the instruction of some 
member who has the gift of faith. It is merely 
the simple, child-like trust in God. 

While we are in health we should study 
thoroughly the lesson of the trust in the Lord 
in case we take sick. If we must have no other 



202 The Truth of the Hour. 

gods before Him, then we should remember to 
make a call on Him first if we take sick. 

Most all Christian advocates of the day 
agree to the point that sickness does not come 
to the children of faith unless permitted by Him, 
and if this be the case, surely He should be the 
one to remove it. 

''Is any among you afiflicted? let him pray" 
(James 5 : 13). 

This Scripture tells us what the individual 
first should do, which is in exact harmony with 
the first commandment. It is to be expected 
that the candidate might take sick some time 
during his schooling and developing into the 
fruits of the Spirit. 

The word ''afflicted" we should naturally 
suppose to mean the primary state of any attack 
of disease. If the mind is not too seriously 
affected immediately when he takes sick, the 
individual should offer his prayer to the Lord. 
The prayer of faith is always heard. But a 
definition of the answer to a prayer of faith does 
not necessarily mean instantaneous action on the 
part of the Lord. The people do not lose faith 
in the medical physician when they do not get 
instantaneous action, so why should a candidate 
waver in faith in God simply because God does 
not respond at once. We must not overlook the 



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fact that God is working up and building a good 
firm character in us, and one of those character- 
istics is an enduring and long-suffering faith ; 
hence He may have this very reason for delayed 
action. 

But suppose we pray a weak and doubtful 
prayer. Suppose our petition fails to have in- 
fluence with God and we are left to the serious 
ravages of disease. The fifteenth verse of the 
same chapter in James says for us to call the 
elders of the church and let them anoint with 
oil, and the ''prayer of faith" shall save the sick, 
and the Lord shall rise him up; and if he has 
committed any sins, they shall be forgiven him. 
There are three blessings mentioned that cannot 
fail if the ''prayer of faith" is offered. "He 
shall be saved" (healed), "raised up" (recu- 
perated) and all the sins forgiven him. 

Of course, "prayer, plus the poultice" is 
merely the talent and education of man co- 
operating with God — self-conceit of man, think- 
ing that he can help God steady the ark of the 
covenant by trying to heal the sick. 

When we pray a weak and unbelieving 
prayer, I suppose that God in a certain technical 
sense would like to answer it; but because it is 
best He has issued a different decree, that it 
must be a "prayer of faith." 



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To suffice for the weaknesses of the indi- 
vidual who is striving for success as a beHever, 
God has placed agents in the church who are 
supposed to be strong and well developed in the 
faith, even to the extent of having faith for the 
weak brother. They are called elders, apostles, 
etc. When the sick candidate is not getting any 
better after his ow^n personal appeal and waiting 
to the extent of his faith, then he should call 
the elder, or one who has the gift of healing, 
and the prayer of faith should be offered. 

After a patient has tried to call the Lord 
and has w^aited the limit of his patience for 
healing, it is only fair that he should resort to 
other methods of healing that most appeals to 
him for recovery, and the experience should not 
alter the course in any succeeding experience. 
In all cases where we fail to recover we must 
rest assured that the prayer was one of form 
and not of faith; therefore, in any succeeding 
experiences in sickness the candidate should try 
again and again until he works up a confident 
faith that will cause God to be influenced to 
heal in answer to prayer. 

A prayer of faith for one's self is offered 
through the administration of fruit-faith, but 
the prayer of faith by elders, or one with the 
healing power for others, is offered through the 



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administration of the gift of healing. Of course, 
this makes a difference in the administrative 
power of the fruit-faith and that of the heahng 
gift. 

In administering the prayer of faith for 
others by the gift-healer, the tongue is guided 
by the power of the Holy Spirit of God, and 
this is what renders the results so sure, for the 
Holy Spirit would not guide the tongue in a 
prayer unless the answer had already been 
provided. 

If they offer the prayer only in the sentiment 
of duty, then they had better offer such a prayer 
in secret, and also confess the truth of that con- 
dition of the heart, for such prayers in public 
are only persistence, plea or customary form. 

Working with the sick is a good thing, but 
should never be looked upon as co-operating 
with God. We must remember that God might 
have that person sick for the benefit of the 
nurse, or the benefit of the physician. We may 
be privileged to work with the sick to develop 
a character in us. *'Be ye careful to entertain 
strangers, for some have entertained angels una- 
wares." Therefore, it could be entirely possible 
that God would sacrifice one of His most beloved 
in serious sickness in order to give some nurse 
or doctor a chance to develop a certain trait of 



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character, or to manifest a certain power, as tb 
gift of healing. 

How would a physician feel if he were called 
to a serious cavSe which he thought immediately 
demanded an operation, and as he began to 
carve on that temple his eyes should be suddenly 
opened that he were working on an angel of God? 
How can we imagine that he would feel? Re- 
gardless of how he feels, his case would be no 
more serious than is daily committed by talent 
and education working on the temples of God. 

Sickness is a blessing to the human char- 
acter, but we lose many, many opportunities to 
learn the lesson that the sickness is suppOwSed to 
teach. 

It is a blessing to us to be permitted to 
work with the sick if we take the opportunity 
to develop the proper character, but it is a sin 
for us to try to hold our co-operation with Him 
as His divinely appointed plan of healing. 

The Gift of Faith. 

The gift of faith is different in its admin- 
istration to the fruit, or individual faith, as has 
been partly explained. One is an individual 
faith and the other is a member faith. One is 
to develop your own character and the other is 



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to vStrengthen other characters, or support them 
in times of exceedingly hard trials. One must 
be had by every soul that enters the kingdom, 
while the other will only be given to certain 
members as the Holy Spirit of God may select. 

Every person who is saved must have that 
fruit-faith. But the gift of faith is only given 
occasionally here and there among the members 
to work in the strengthening of others who are 
weak or just beginning in the school of Christian 
experiences. 

A person with the gift of faith is supposed 
to work with those with the weak individual 
faith, for it would not be profitable for the person 
w^ith the Gift of Knowledge to work with the 
individual who was weak in fruit-faith. In fact, 
the member with the Gift of Knowledge is liable 
to damage the weak individual with his strong 
meats, unless, however, which is possible, the 
leading member possess the two gifts. 

A weak member can be fed knowledge; in 
fact, he must have it; but it must be dosed out 
to him in a spoon of faith, handled exclusively 
under the administration of the Gift of Faith 
and not by that of the Gift of Knowledge. 

The member with the Gift of Knowledge 
cannot be of co-operating help to the member 
with the Gift of Faith who is nursing the weak 



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brother, for this reason: Knowledge is strong 
meat and should be fed to the nurse and not 
to the patient, unless fed by the nurse in the 
fragments as the said nurse is led by the Giver 
of the Gift. 

The Gift of Faith, like that of healing, is 
one of the lifters under the heavy burden of 
defiled human character, replacing it on the 
table of knowledge w^hence it has fallen. The 
Gift of Knowledge, therefore, is more to be 
called the table than a lifter. 

When the members of the church are cau- 
tioned by the leaders not to dp anything, or 
follow any voice, or write an article that they 
do not thoroughly understand, they are con- 
tributing to doubt and mistrust. They place 
their knowledge as the supreme judge, and they 
thereby confine the efforts of the Spirit of God 
to the realm of the capacity of the member. 

A person with individual faith will risk his 
works where his knowledge declares there is 
danger; at the same time inspiration will move 
him to refrain from things in which his knowl- 
edge declares perfect safety; in fact, he will 
trust his works to the God who is personally 
directing him. 

Abraham knew by the law of God that it 
would be a sin to kill Isaac, yet he followed the 



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voice of the angel in the face of his knowledge 
firmly declaring he was doing wrong. It is the 
true faith who will go out to do a thing knowing 
it is wrong, yet fully trusting and believing that 
God wnll save him from the wrong; that is, keep 
him from doing it. Abraham reasoned that in 
some way God would intervene for Isaac's sake 
if not for his own. Abraham knew that his 
righteousness depended on the intervention of 
God at all times and that it would do just as 
well to trust this case, even though serious as it 
might seem, to the intervention of God. 

If he had done this thing to himself, it 
could be interpreted as fruit-faith, but as he 
did it for Isaac and the benefit of his descendants, 
it is called the gift of faith, for Abraham was a 
leader of the innocent. 

He led Isaac into the realm of death be- 
cause the voice of the Father told him to do it; 
then the same angelic person who commanded 
him to kill the son likewise inspired him with 
the faith for the benefit of the innocent. 

The Spirit of the Father is on those at the 
time they perform the function of the gift of 
faith, and if the person demand to act according 
to knowledge then the faith would be of no 
effect. The angel could justly say: ''You have 
mistrusted me, for you act just as though you 



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feel you are being guided by an evil angel, or 
that your God would lead you into an unpardon- 
able or unredeemable sin." The Spirit would 
naturally have the right to say: ''The wrong 
fear is in the heart. It is a greater sin to be 
afraid to trust God than it is to do a thing that 
our knowledge declares to be wrong. 

The leaders of the last church seem to be 
afraid of the Spirit of the God they are following, 
for they demand that the gift of faith be set 
aside as a secondary matter and knowledge be 
the ruler of the two. 



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CHAPTER XX. 

The Gift of Discernment. 

There is not a sin in the Bible branded 
more specifically and in plainer language than 
the sin of knowledge doing the work of the gift 
of discernment. Passing judgment on thy 
brother by thy knowledge of what he doeth is 
the most specifically condemned sin of the New 
Testament. 

"Judge not, that ye be not judged, for with 
what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; 
and with what measure ye mete, it shall be 
measured to you again (Matt. 7 : 1, 2). 

Judgment is called the gift of discernment. 
It is a gift not often exercised in the church if 
left to the Holy Spirit. The apostles, who left 
almost everything to the personal guidance of 
the Holy Spirit, did a few times pass judgment 
on certain people who were interfering or com- 
mitting serious sins, but they always were moved 
by the Holy Spirit, and likewise they always 
waited upon God to vindicate. The apostles 
did not pass judgment, then execute their wrath 
by power of organization. 



212 The Truth of the Hour. 

No matter how high the office held in the 
church and no matter how much you know of 
the brother's sins, no man has even a shadow 
of a scriptural right to pass and execute his 
authority over the brother in the church. 

''Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, 
whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein 
thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyvself ; 
for thou that judgest doeth the same things" 
(Roms. 2:1). 

So many people try to make believe that 
criticism is judgment, but it is not. If I criti- 
cize my brother and withdraw myself from him 
because of his sin, then I have judged him. Or 
if I use any kind of organized force to expel him 
from the church or from my society, I have 
judged him, unless he has become a pest or a 
continual disturber of my peace; and even in 
that case I should have sufficient influence with 
God to get Him to stop the pestilent brother 
from disturbing me; otherwise I should bear 
with the disturbance. 

People are almost unanimous in their 
opinions that criticism is judgment, but it is a 
wrong conception. As a matter of fact, it is 
righteousness if done in the proper spirit. 

Many times a critic can learn from his own 
criticism if he do it in the proper, mild and 



My Last Call. 213 

Intelligent manner. Those who get angry at 
being criticized are ignorant if the critic is 
intelligently respectful. 

Where improper judgment comes into the 
church is when the leaders use their power and 
influence against some member whom they know 
possesses some weaknesses. 

They seek to throw him out of the church 
and create other humiliating decrees against 
him, just as the political characteristic would 
demand in any other organization. 

Some church leaders are really to be pitied 
for their conception of the liberty they think 
they have as a church official. They think that 
no government official is clothed in anything 
like the authority as that of the church minister. 

It is to be conceded that a church minister 
has a great deal of authority provided God has 
given it to him, but it must be remembered 
that his authority is to be protected by the 
power of God and not by political intrigue. 

Church officials, councils and conference 
committees take upon themselves grave re- 
sponsibilities when they refuse church member- 
ship, disorganize church bodies, forbid laymen 
holding prayer meetings in their own home 
without getting consent, jerk laymen up before 



214 The Truth of the Hour, 

the church council, refuse transfer of member- 
ship, and otherwise deprive him of his civil 
rights, as far as they are able to do so, all for 
the different accusations of the supposed heresy. 
Such things God never gave any church leaders 
power to do; in fact, God reserves all such 
cases to His own judgment. Of course, there 
are probably cases where the leaders are justified 
to take action against a member, but it is always 
a case of disturbing the peace, and not one of 
supposed heresy. 

Those who know God's law are preaching 
the first, second and third angel's message of 
the fourteenth chapter of the book of Revela- 
tion. Even though it is a great church repre- 
senting the twelve tribes of Israel reorganized, 
yet their leaders will follow the political spirit 
instead of the Holy Spirit; and even though 
these political methods are carried out time and 
again before our eyes, they still have the audacity 
to claim that they are following the Holy Spirit 
of God. But what more can we expect when 
a great monarch will follow his political ambi- 
tions and throw two-thirds of the world into war, 
and while the blood from humanity is flowing 
freely he will reiterate publicly that he is follow- 
ing the Holy Spirit of God? 

Those evils exist because the political char- 



My Last Call. 215 

acter of man demands that they exist. While 
God has given His sanction to the state to prose- 
cute the offenders of estabhshed law, He has 
reserved to the Holy Spirit the rights of all 
judgments in the church to perform through one 
with the gift of discernment. 

Any man who uses the temporal power at 
his command to prosecute and persecute a 
brother in the flesh to prevent what he believes 
to be error from entering the church is in gross 
ignorance of the way of the cross. There are no 
committees of the church who possess any such 
authority from God ; namely, to judge a member 
by knowledge. 

The Gift of Discernment is for that duty, 
and the Holy Spirit gives the gift to whom He 
will; and when that person exercises the gift, 
the execution is done by the Lord. 

He reveals to the person possessing the gift 
the evils necessary to be made manifest, which 
gives the perpetrator of such evils a chance to 
repent. God follows the case up with the punish- 
ment, if any is necessary. 

But God has declared that the wheat and 
the tares must grow together, and by no means 
does He invite men to put forth their hands and 
by their knowledge of existing sin try to root 
supposed evil out of the church. God intends 



216 The Truth of the Hour. 

to present His church to Himself a spotless 
body, but some elders are audacious enough to 
believe that it is necessary for them to help. 

"And when they came to Xachon's threshing 
floor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of 
God, and took hold of it: for the oxen shook it. 
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against 
Uzzah, and God smote him for his error; and 
there he died by the ark of God." (H Samuel 
6 :6, 7.) 

It is positively known that God does not 
want men to put forth their hands to cleanse 
His church. It is inconsistent to believe such 
when the very doctrine we preach declares that 
we are all sinners alike. It is likewise positively 
known that He does not want man's co-operation 
in cleansing the individual. He wants to do 
those things Himself in sympathy and answer 
to a pure motive and contrite heart of the 
believer, but not by aid of hand power and 
co-operation. 

The Gift of Miracles. 

Again we see where the evil of usurped 
authority showing its tyrannical hand is sup- 
pressing the Gift of Miracles. To suppress this 
gift is a virtual acknowledgment and boast on 



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My Last Call 217 

the part of knowledge of its arriving at the 
state of perfection. A miracle is something that 
we do not understand ; something is done before 
our eyes, yet we do not understand it; so to 
suppress the miracle is a boast that knowledge 
rules supreme. 

The authority that knowledge has taken in 
the church to suppress the gifts is not told in a 
plainer language b^^ another gift than that of 
miracles. 

In plain words and unmistakable language 
right from the pulpit they reject anything that 
has any resemblance of a miracle. They preach 
from the pulpit and cautiously warn the laity 
that they must understand everything they do 
in the Christian life. 

Anything miraculous is looked upon with 
suspicion, and the layman is regularly advised 
that great miracles are going to be done by the 
Evil in the latter days, and that they should 
evade anything that they do not thoroughly 
understand. 

Of course, the Gift of Miracles is called for 
so plainly in the Bible that the layman is not 
usually satisfied without some explanation as 
to why the church has not got it. In answer to 
this demand we see long and perfect articles in 



218 The Truth of the Hour. 

their official papers on the gifts. The wording 
of that article is perfect, and if the works were 
carried out according to that article, then God's 
church would have long ago been pronounced 
perfect by Him. 

But as the Jewish church was teaching its 
members to break commandments when Christ 
came before, so is the church in that same 
condition now. And it was not because they 
did not know how^ to teach the command- 
ments, for they did. Every leading Jew under- 
stood perfectly, but that political characteristic 
had gotten the best of them (Matt. 15:4 and 5). 
"For God commanded, saying. Honour thy 
father and mother: and, he that curseth father 
or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, 
Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother. 
It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be 
profited by me." 

In those two verses we can see that political 
spirit plain. 

While our church leaders advise us to beware 
of anything miraculous, they point out occasion- 
ally that a miracle has been performed by them ; 
and lest it be a boast, they have concealed it. 

In other words, they are virtually telling 
their people that they should not allow miracles, 
for ''whatsoever mightest be of a miraculous 



My Last Call, 219 

nature for their benefit it will come through the 
leadership." 

So strong has the opposition been estab- 
lished against the gift of miracles and other 
gifts being in the layman and his coming under 
the direct influence of God in vision, dream, or 
hearing of the inaudible Voice, that the experi- 
ence is usually minimized by a criticizing sug- 
gestion or incredulous insinuation that ''the 
digestive organs are not working or probably 
the stomach has been overloaded." Such is the 
soil of contempt that even ministers are culti- 
vating towards the gifts of God's church. There 
are many cases where full-grown politicians who 
are not in the ministry, but devoting their entire 
time to the state, have much more respect for 
God's works than to refer to the vision, dream, 
or hearing of the inaudible voice, in any such 
sarcasm. 

It will hardly be worth while to go deeper 
into the error of opposition against the Gift of 
Miracles, but it is only necessary to listen to 
the oratory from the pulpit to catch in great 
measure the truthfulness of what I have said of 
the opposition to the Gifts. 

Miracles must be in the church, and they 
will be in the laity if it believes in them. It is 



220 The Truth of the Hour. 

error for the leaders to preach against the gifts 
being performed by the members of the church. 

The Gift of Wisdom. 

The Gift of Wisdom is at present con- 
founded with the Gift of Knowledge in the 
minds of most people, and it seems that our 
leaders have made little or no effort to separate 
the meaning and duties of these two Gifts. 

If there is no difference in the two Gifts 
and it is possible that only one is necessary, 
then the question arises: Why did God give 
the second? 

The truth of the matter is that Mr. Political 
Knowledge has succeeded in submerging the Gift 
of Wisdom almost into the realms of the un- 
known (not needed) just as much if not a little 
more than the others. Wisdom seemingly is 
looked upon as a passing incident in speech or 
by-product in the great volume of knowledge, 
but it is error, for the Gift of Wisdom is of just 
the same importance as that of Knowledge. 

Without the Gift of Wisdom it is just as 
impossible for the church as a body to please 
Him as it is impossible for the individual to 
please Him without individual faith. 

It is that Gift that advises the church to 



My Last Call. 221 

place on the altar of repentance all those errors 
brought to light by the other Gifts. The 
church must have the Gift of Wivsdom just the 
same as the individual must have the fruit- 
faith. Wisdom is that helm that guideth the 
church to repentance of its sins and errors com- 
mitted as a body. 

Therefore it is one of the most important 
helpers to lift the church up to the standard 
set forth by knowledge. Each Gift has its 
separate duty to perform, and like all principles 
of law in the infinite chain, they interlock and 
walk hand in hand, each one helping the other 
most effectively by attending to its own duty 
most efficiently. Knowledge points out the sin 
and wisdom advises the church to repent. 

The Gift of Tongues. 

There is no gift to the church that would 
make the Bible more a book of foolishness and 
unnecCvSsary things as the Gift of Tongues if it 
were proper to manifest that Gift by knowledge. 

There can positively be no misunderstand- 
ing that knowledge is out of order when it is 
trying to perform the function of that Gift. At 
the same time it is not the intention to abuse 
the ability of intelligence for speaking in two or 



222 The Truth of the Hour. 

more languages. Education in languages is per- 
fectly proper and not opposed, only when they 
are deceitfully proclaiming that tongues by 
talent and education is the gift-tongues. 

The Scriptures are perfectly plain on the 
subject, and no one, elder or what not, can 
properly represent the Bible if he teaches that 
the speaker must necessarily understand the 
tongue he is speaking. There would be nothing 
absolute about the unknown tongues as a gift 
by the power of the Holy Spirit if this were the 
case. 

When the prophets prophesy, they are 
directly under the influence and power of the 
Holy Spirit. When the Divine Healer heals, 
he is directly under the power of the Holy Spirit ; 
likewise all other gifts; and that being the case, 
it also requires the speaker of the unknown 
tongue to be under the power of the Holy Spirit. 

If knowledge could perform these different 
gifts to the church, then the entire knowledge 
of the Bible and the plan of salvation could be 
in two-thirds less volume and made so simple 
that its matter would be as common as any 
writings of men. But the admirable and ad- 
vantageous feature of the Bible is the fact that 
God reserves the authority and leadership of 
His people to Himself, and the Gifts distributed 



My Last Call. 223 

to the individual membership of the church is 
just the secret of this positive plan. 

We are assured through the Gifts that God 
is the leader of the church, and no man or set 
of men can mislead God's people, because He 
reveals the truth to them direct. 

Personality, tact, talent and education can 
get us to the head of the church; it can make 
us leader and admit us to the sacred altars of 
the church building, but it takes the pure motive 
for us to reach there if God is the Judge and 
Leader. God knew they would unrighteously 
take the positions of authority and gradually 
spread error of image worship. Man trying to 
follow man, each generation gets worse until 
they are lowered into the depths of ignorant 
image worship, but by the Lord keeping in 
authority by the Holy Angels representing Him, 
as one church body becomes defiled by ascend- 
ancy of talent and education into power, God 
sets it aside and raises up another. The Holy 
Spirit who came to earth ten days after the 
ascension of the Saviour does the work. 

It will be necessary to quote the Scriptures 
on the Gift of Tongues and tell what they are 
for. We must then give the disposition of the 
Gift of Knowledge toward that unknown tongue. 
In the first place, the Bible is in error for using 



224 The Truth of the Hour. 

the word "unknown" if knowledge has any right 
to do the function of that Gift. 

Tongues first begin to come to Hght in the 
New Testament (Mark 16 : 17). Here are four 
distinct gifts mentioned that will be a sign of 
the believers. (Now a sign is an advertisement.) 

The four Gifts are these : Miracles, Healing, 
Tongues, and Faith. "These signs shall follow 
them that believe: In my name shall they 
cast out devils; they shall speak with new 
tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if 
they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt 
them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and 
they shall recover." 

The "New Tongues." 

New tongues cannot mean anything short 
of ''unknown," for if I learn a language by the 
process of education it would not be a new 
tongue; in fact, it would not even be a tongue; 
it is more properly called a language. 

A New Tongue is evidently one the speaker 
has instantaneously received. In the first part 
of the book instantaneous creation is opposed, 
but now it is endorsed. This is because of the 
change of the thing. The thing is different; so 
is also the law of the thing different. To explain 



My Last Call, 225 

this we will refer to Adam, and because he was 
the first man we will use him as an illustration. 

If the Holy Spirit can instantaneously im- 
part an unknown tongue to a person, so could 
the angels likewise have instantaneously created 
Adam and imparted a language to him in the 
same righteous manner as here concluded with 
respect to the instantaneous gifts. Perhaps the 
afore argument is in the reader's mind ; even so, 
we will agree. 

But the case of Adam was different, for it 
was intended that he should stand alone. The 
angels did teach Adam in this same manner. 
They caused him to speak his language over 
and over again until he learned it. In this 
manner education was instituted. The language 
was established by the angel speaking it to him 
over and over, for he was to later stand alone; 
but not so with the Gifts, for no possessor of a 
gift will ever be allowed to stand alone. In fact, 
this is the very point at issue. The gifts to the 
church inevitably require the Holy Spirit's pres- 
ence each and every time. 

The Lord will keep control of His church as 
long as this earth stands, and He will therefore 
never allow a gift to develop into a talent and 
education. 



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Education was necessary in Adam, for he 
was to stand alone ; therefore it took time. But 
the Lord will never give a Gift to a man to be 
handled by his talent and education as long as sin 
exists in the w^orld. He has reserved this power 
and control to Himself, and He will not let go 
of it until the earth is cleansed, at which time 
He will again trust redeemed man. 

We must now note the second chapter of 
Acts. 

''And when the day of Pentecost was fully 
come, they were all with one accord in one place. 

''And suddenly there came a sound from 
heaven, as of a mighty rushing wind, and it 
filled all the house where they were sitting. 

"And there appeared unto them cloven 
tongues (unknown to the speaker) like as of 
fire, and it sat on each of them. 

"And they were all filled with the Holy 
Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, 
as the spirit gave them utterance. 

"And there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, 
devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 

"Now when this was noised abroad, the 
multitude came together, and were confounded, 
because that every man heard them speak in his 
own language. 



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''And they were all amazed, and marvelled, 
saying one to another, Behold, are not all these 
which speak Galileans. 

''And how hear we every man in our own 
tongue, wherein we were born?" 

The forgoing references are from the first of 
the second chapter of Acts. They leave us with- 
out a shadow of doubt, unless we doubt the 
Scriptures, that the Christians spoke in the 
tongue unknown to the speaker. 

It is not necessary to contend that every 
speaker always spoke in a tongue that he did 
not understand, for it is very possible that some 
had the double gift, namely, the interpretation 
of tongues. In that case some of the speakers 
at Pentecost probably understood the foreign 
tongue they spoke. 

The ability of the Christians to speak in 
seventeen different languages, as demonstrated 
at Pentecost by the Galileans, .shows that a 
fluent and intelligent tongue spoken by a party 
or parties who do not understand it, or probably 
no part of it, is one essential feature to be mani- 
fest in the Christian church to give conclusive 
evidence of the wonderful works of God. 

We may note particularly that when the 
Scriptures refer to the multitudes the word 



228 The Truth of the Hour. 

''language" is used, but when speaking of the 
Christians in connection with this gift the fol- 
lowing words are used: Other tongues, new 
tongues, cloven tongues and unknown tongues. 

There will be some in the closing days who 
will say: ''Lord, Lord open unto us. But He 
answered. Verily I say unto you, I know you 
not" (Matt. 25 : 11, 12). These people who will 
say this were numbered with the ten Virgins: 
yet the Lord knows them not. Why? Because 
He had no occasion to know them. They do 
the works of the gifts but by the power of talent 
and education; therefore the Saviour did not 
know them; the Holy Spirit does not make 
reports of their works and the Saviour does not 
know them. 

What is the Gift of Tongues For? 

The Bible does not answer this question in 
doubtful language if we can accept what it says. 
Like all other important biblical subjects, it is 
plain and easily understood. 

Almost the entire fourteenth chapter of 1st 
Corinthians is devoted to correcting the false 
conception and the misuse of the Gift of Tongues 
and explaining what they are for. 

Beginning at 14 : 1, we read: 



My Last Call 229 

''Follow after charity, and desire spiritual 
gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. 

"For he that speaketh in an unknown 
tongue, speaketh not unto men, but unto God: 
for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the 
spirit he speaketh mysteries. 

''But he that prophesieth speaketh unto 
men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. 

"He that speaketh in an unknown tongue 
edifieth himself: but he that prophesieth edifieth 
the church. 

"I would that ye all spake with tongues, but 
rather that ye prophesied : for greater is he that 
prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, 
except he interpret, that the church may receive 
edifying. 

"Now, brethren, if I come unto you speak- 
ing with tongues, what shall I profit you, except 
I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by 
knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine." 

(The reader is asked to note the separate 
use of doctrine and knowledge.) 

We could quote much more on the subject 
if space would justify, but enough has been 
quoted to clearly set forth the purpose of the 
Gift of Tongues. 



230 The Truth of the Hour. 

First, note that he says the man who speaks 
in an unknown tongue speaks not unto men, but 
unto God. It cannot fairly be questioned that 
it means unknown, as it says again: ''No man 
understandeth him." 

It gives the believer conclusive evidence 
that he must get hold on God in a manner that 
the Holy Spirit will take the tongue and speak 
a prayer in a language he sees fit. 

Secondarily, it says that it edifies the 
speaker. 

We cannot with fairness to the individual 
advocate the abolition of the Gift of Tongues 
to the church, because it blesses the individual 
and puts him in direct touch with God, and it 
is for this individual that God works to the 
edification. 

We must not let it take hold on our minds 
that the Gift of Tongues is to edify the church, 
for when we address an audience we should 
speak in a tongue that they understand ; so the 
unknown tongue is not to be used in addressing 
the audience unless it is interpreted. The Bible 
is plain on that point. 

Paul says it is better for us to prophesy if 
we want to speak to the edification of the church, 
and we should not address an audience in a 



My Last Call. 231 

language that they do not understand unless 
some one has the gift of interpretation to 
interpret. 

In church gatherings, prayer meetings, etc., 
we are allowed to speak in unknown tongues if 
someone interpret, provided we speak preferably 
one at a time. If God give an interpreter, the 
unknown tongue is just as great if not a greater 
gift than that of prophesying, for in such case 
there are two gifts at work and the speaker is 
edified, and likewise the audience. 

The plain, cold fact is that the Gift of Un- 
known Tongues will be spoken among God's 
children, and they will be spoken decently and 
in order; not to. try to edify the body unless 
they have an interpreter. But more particularly 
are tongues to edify the individual. They are 
to be spoken by the power of the Spirit and not 
by education and talent, the latter having no 
authority from God to demonstrate such a gift; 
especially do persons transgress when they speak 
in a tongue by knowledge, then tell the members 
they are manifesting a Gift. 

''Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, 
and forbid not to speak with tongues. Let all 
things be done decently and in order" (I Cor. 
14 : 39, 40). There can be no mistake, after 
reading the words of the apostle Paul, that any 



232 The Truth of the Hour. 

minister or other authority who would in any 
manner suppress the Gift of Tongues is attempt- 
ing to lead his flock in the ways of error. 

Talent and education cannot say unto the 
Gift of Tongues: ''We can speak in any tongue 
and we have no need of thee." A glance at the 
churches will readily convince us that these two 
features of the human character do domineer 
and control the church, and even though the 
Bible plainly tells us that one gift cannot dis- 
pense with the use of other Gifts, yet these two 
natural human gifts are fighting against the 
gifts of the Spirit of God. 

The Bible is perfectly plain that the Pente- 
costal tongues should be in the church, and also 
it is plain as to how these tongues should be 
used. While there are many people who claim 
to have the Pentecostal tongues, if they are of 
the true, the personnel of such gifts will sooner 
or later adhere to the scriptural teachings of how 
to behave with their gift while in church. 

The Interpretation of Tongues. 

No gift can show the fallacy of talent and 
education doing the work of the other gifts 
more than a close investigation of the work for 
the gift of interpretation of tongues. 



My Last Call. 233 

If knowledge is right in its claim to master 
the tongues and forbid them to be spoken only 
by one that is master of languages, what need 
have we of an interpretation? If the member 
is educated and the master of languages, why 
does he need an interpreter? 

Of course, if a minister goes to preach to 
a congregation who is of foreign tongue, it is 
only a matter of consequence that he have 
an interpreter to translate his language so the 
foreigner may understand. But those points do 
not enter into the argument, for they are ac- 
cepted by tongues believers. But such procedure 
does not convince anyone of the ''Wonderful 
works of God." A politician, statesman, atheist, 
unbeliever or infidel can employ the same. tongue 
and the same interpretation of tongues. In fact, 
such works are mere talents and education to 
any men who will w^ork for them. 

But when we go into the merit of addressing 
the audience we are leaving the principle for 
which tongues were given. They were not given 
in that connection at all. 

The seventeen tongues that were spoken at 

Pentecost were not for the mere purpose that 

■ all nationalities gathered at that time should 

hear the message, but it was to demonstrate to 



234 The Truth of the Hour. 

a!l people the wonderful works of God and how 
He maintains control of His works, even to the 
controlling of men's tongues, fingers and even 
their minds at intervals. A wonderful power, a 
magnificent powder it is to those who yield to the 
Holy Spirit of God. 



My Last Call. 235 

CHAPTER XXL 

Twenty-Fifth Chapter of Matthew. 

In this chapter there are ten virgins brought 
to view by a parable. This parable shows there 
will exist a people of practically the same char- 
acter. But there is a part of them who have no 
oil. They will be rejected. Oil is a symbol 
of true faith in Jesus; that is, a saving faith, 
and different from a quivering belief. 

Those people who have no oil have no 
''faith of Jesus." They are people who keep a 
commandment by belief. They know that the 
commandments are right and they keep them 
from merely being convinced and are afraid of 
the result of not keeping them. 

People who keep the commandments 
through their strength of talent and education 
are going to be in worse shape in the day than 
any people in the world. They excite the wrath 
of Satan because they advocate the keeping of 
the commandments, and they drive off the Holy 
Spirit of God and refuse His aid, and then they 
will certainly be miserable. 



236 The Truth of the Hour, 

The oil, balm, eyesalve and faith of Jesus 
are all symbolic references, either direct or in- 
direct, to the baptism of the Holy Spirit through 
which we receive the fruits of the Spirit to the 
individual and the gifts of the Spirit to the 
church. 

May the children of the Laodicean church 
take warning and cling to the personal repre- 
sentative of heaven who will make intercession 
for the forgiveness of sins and cleanse from all 
unrighteousness. It is all done through the 
medium of individual faith and prevailing prayer 
offered from the secret chamber. 

The angels educated Adam and Eve; they 
taught Moses for forty years while he herded 
sheep for the Medianite priest, and finally 
brought him to the mountain of God in Horeb. 
They took David through the mountains and 
valleys as a fugitive from his enemy. King Saul, 
and finally delivered him at the head of Israel, 
where he made a reputation as a great leader. 

Time will fail me to tell of the other char- 
acters who have been guided through this world 
by the voice of Goodly Angels. 

We have no record of the Saviour from the 
time he was twelve years old until He was the 
age of about twenty-seven, at which time He 



My Last Call. 237 

appeared at the Jordan, where John was bap- 
tizing. He was undoubtedly educated by the 
angels (Matt. 3 : 13). 

"And the Jews marveled, saying, How know- 
eth this man letters, having never learned?" 
(John 7 : 15). ''J^sus answered them, and said. 
My doctrine is not mine, but His that sent me." 

They claimed that Jesus had not gone to 
school, and then Jesus virtually acknowledged 
their claim and said that God had educated 
Him. The Saviour further states that God will 
educate anyone else: ''If any man will do His 
will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether 
it be of God, or whether I speak of myself." 

Any man who will take up the experience of 
following the voice of the Holy Spirit will soon 
know for himself whether Jesus got His educa- 
tion from man or from God. 

Paul, whose name was once Saul, stood 
very high in talent and education of men. He 
enjoyed the reputation of being one of the lead- 
ers in the Jewish Sanhedrin. After he received 
the great revelation and heard the voice while 
on his way to Damascus, one would naturally 
think that with his talent and education he 
could go right into the work of the Lord; but 
not so, for the Scriptures say he spent fourteen 



238 The Truth of the Hour, 

years in retirement, fully intimating that he 
was being educated by the angels of God. 

''But when it pleased God, who separated 
me from my mother's womb, and called me by 
His grace, 

''To reveal His Son in me, that I might 
preach Him among the heathen; immediately I 
conferred not with flesh and blood: 

"Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them 
which were apostles before me ; but I went unto 
Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. 

"Then after three years I went up to Jeru- 
salem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen 
days. But other of the apostles saw I none, save 
James the Lord's brother. 

"Now the things which I write unto you, 
behold, before God, I lie not. Afterwards I 
came unto the regions of Syria and Cilicia; 

"And was unknown by face unto the 
churches of Judea which were in Christ. 

"But they heard only. That he which perse- 
cuted in times past, now preacheth the faith 
which once he destroyed. 

"And they glorified God in me. 

"Then, fourteen years after, I went up again 
to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus 
with me also. 



My Last Call 239 

''And I went up by revelation." (Gal. 1 : 
15-24; Gal. 2 : 1, 2.) 

The Scriptures here cited are to show that 
the apostle Paul received his education by direc- 
tion of the angels, and also his calls from place 
to place to the brethren was b}^ revelation. 
According to the record, we know that Moses 
was forty years, David more than twelve years, 
Christ fifteen years, and Paul fourteen years in 
the school directly under the Lord. Paul was 
undoubtedly a highly educated man when he 
was called ; and the records show^ that the other 
three were practically uneducated boys when 
they stepped out publicly. Even though Paul 
was a highly educated man, he made no record 
of time over the other unless it was Moses. 

The particular point to make is that the 
Holy Spirit is in the world to educate God's 
people, and all their talents and education may 
be waste, for seldom God uses it at all. He 
educates His children according to His own 
ideas of righteousness. 

We are petitioned in the opening of the 
book of Acts to tarry until we receive the baptism 
of the Holy Spirit, at which time we will be 
endued with power from on high. We will 
receive the power for the overcoming of sins 
and the change of character. 



240 The Truth of the Hour. 

The message to God's last church is one ot 
natural law. "Buy of Him gold tried in the 
fire" Rev. 3 : 18). 

I petition you to seek God with a whole 
heart. Get hold on Him in secret prayer and 
He will fulfill His promises. 

Messengers can preach to you, but God 
alone can reveal. "Blessed art thou. Simon 
Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood did not reveal 
it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." 

Let us stay clear of co-operating factions 
and face things as a competitor in the race to 
a new life and a new world, for, behold, the 
old things will soon pass away. Translation is 
soon to come. The close of probation is still 
nearer. 

I sail' His face and heard the inaudible voice: 
^'This is mx last call/' 



My Last Call. 241 

CHAPTER XXII. 

Eleventh Chapter of Revelation. 

This chapter is of intense importance to 
every person. It can be truthfully said that 
never before was there ever a certain Scripture 
more a truth of the hour. 

The first verse in plain is a brief declaration 
of the power and authority that is given to the 
last individual messenger that is sent to the 
church. 

This messenger's work, something like that 
of John the Baptist, is to call the attention of 
this church to the nearness of the coming of 
the Saviour and the vital points that are lacking. 

''And I will give power unto my two wit- 
nesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two 
hundred and three score days, clothed in sack- 
cloth. 

''These are two olive trees, and the two 
candlesticks standing before the God of the 
earth" (Rev. 11 : 3, 4). 

Those two witnesses are two churches. 
They are large bodies of people, well organized 



242 The Truth of the Hou? . 

into church forms and rules, and have their 
headquarters in the United States. 

One of these churches is the reorganized 
ten Tribes of Israel that hundreds of years 
before Christ were lost in heathenism. The 
other church represents the two Tribes; and is 
that of Judea, the official of the two witnesses. 

In the seventh chapter of Revelation we 
see that before the end of this dispensation the 
twelve Tribes will again appear in organized 
form. 

''And all Israel (the twelve Tribes) shall be 
saved" (Rom. 11 : 26). This last organization 
of the Tribes of Israel is made up of every 
kindred, tongue and people, both Jew and 
Gentile, of the earth. 

The mark of identity is plainly given in the 
third and fourth verses, quoted above. 

It is easily enough to recognize them, for 
they are preaching the doctrines mentioned in 
the two verses: 

''And I willgive power unto my two wit- 
nesses." 

How beautifully that statement conforms 
with the Saviour's words in the twenty-fourth 
chapter of Matthew: 



I 



My Last Call. 243 

''And this gospel of the kingdom shall be 
preached in all the world for a witness." 

Continuing in these verses, we note: 

''And they shall prophesy a thousand two 
hundred and three score days clothed in sack- 
cloth." We shall not be deceived into the idea 
that they shall prophesy that length of time. 
The twelve hundred and sixty days (years) is 
their message. They are preaching and point- 
ing back to twelve hundred and sixty years as 
proof of certain points. 

They are both preaching certain reforms in 
dress and eating which are described in the 
w^ords: "Clothed in sackcloth." 

The twentieth verse of the first chapter of 
Revelation will explain what is meant by a 
candlestick, and referring to Paul's message in 
the eleventh chapter of Romans we see that the 
Olive Tree is the real Israel ; thus we see that 
these two candlesticks are recognized as the real 
tw^elve Tribes of Israel. 

The ninth verse of the eleventh chapter 
says that these two church bodies will die. They 
will be dead three and one-half days (years), as 
every day in prophetical language means a year 
(Ezk. 4 :6). 



244 The Truth of the Hour. 

They are going to be dead three and one- 
half years, but their death is not physical ; it is 
a spiritual death, and is plainly indicated as 
such by the prophet, referring to the scene where 
Jesus was crucified, at which time the Holy 
Spirit was withdrawn and the political and 
militarist spirit ruled. 

The fifth and sixth verses tell of the enor- 
mous powder these two churches had during their 
time; and w^hile possibly they did not manifest 
any such power, yet it was a promise of heaven 
at their command to use if the situation had 
demanded it. 

God told the messenger to rise and measure 
the altar of the church and them that wor- 
ship therein. This has been done according 
to the Lord's instructions and leadership. The 
messenger worked quietly and kindly with them 
as God directed, from time to time, but they 
rejected him and cast him from them. 

The seventh verse tells w^hy they rejected 
this messenger. The beast would overcome 
them. 

The question naturally arises in our minds 
as to what is the beast. It is that political 
characteristic with sufficient organized strength 
to reach out for Universalism, trying to bring 



My Last Call 245 

the world into one organization by temporal 
power, without the rebirth of character by the 
power of the Holy Spirit. 

All through the Scriptures where human 
Universalism is treated it is called a beast. In 
the books of Daniel and Revelation the subject 
is handled much. Note the seventeenth chapter 
of Revelation : 

''And I saw a woman drunken w^th the 
blood of the saints, and with the blood of the 
martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I 
wondered with great admiration. 

"And the angel said unto me, Wherefore 
didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery 
of the woman, and of the beast that carried her, 
which hath the seven heads and ten horns." 

The woman is a church. The beast is 
Universalism. The seven heads represent the 
seven mountains on which the woman sitteth; 
or, the seven attempts to organize the world into 
Universalism. 

Whether or not the attempt is made by a 
church, politics or militarism it does not matter; 
it is of the character of a beast. 

Any attempt at Universalism in any other 
manner except as recommended by Christ, which 



246 The Truth of the Hour. 

is not to take place until His coming, is beastly. 
We must have a rebirth of character, and that 
stands for no Uni\ ersalism except at His coming. 
Any character that seeks Universalism has not 
experienced the rebirth ; the seeking itself shows 
that the political characteristic still lives.' 

Those who try for Universalism are thieves 
and robbers, trying to steal into the Utopia 
some other way except by the door of the sheep 
(St. John 10 : 1). 

The angel's interpretation to John shows 
that the Universalism has really existed five 
times, and the five Kings have fallen, and- one 
is, and the other has not yet come. 

Read the eighth, tenth and eleventh verses. 
The one that exists now evidently exists in that 
Universal church. Her political power has fallen, 
but her moral power and influence still reigns. 
She rides on the beast of Universalism. 

The ten horns which thou sawest are ten 
Kings which have received no Ivingdom as Vet; 
but they receive power one hour with the beast. 
That means that we are going to have ten 
Kings or Judges, and they will have control of 
the Universe for about an hour, prophetical time, 
or fifteen days' literal time. Their work will be 
to constitute the last Universal agreement. 



My Last Call , 247 

They are going to act against the principles 
of Christ as concerning UniversaHsm, but He is 
going to overcome them. 

The ten Judges are going to turn against 
this great Universal Church, for God will put 
it into their hearts to do so. But as Daniel said 
that the ten toes would not hold together be- 
cause iron and clay would not mix, these ten 
Judges will not be able to hold the world 
together. 

It is the Candlestick of the eleventh chapter 
that is the important part of this subject. The 
eighth verse of this chapter says that the beast 
will overcome them. They will lose sight of the 
significance of the fundamental principle of 
their doctrine, and their works will show Uni- 
versalism by power of organization and political 
methods. They will, only by words of pretense, 
forget that the most vital points of doctrine is 
the personal coming of Jesus to set up His 
kingdom on earth, and they will drift off into 
this beastly Universalism by power of organi- 
zation. 

They are going to die, says the seventh 
verse, for the beast is going to kill them; but 
this death is a spiritual death. They wnW die to 
the Holy Spirit, and their church work will be 



248 The Tmth of the Hour, 

carried on by a political spirit. Read the 
seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh 
verses, with the spiritual death in mind, and 
you will see that the spiritual death is the 
subject. The Holy Spirit is the spirit of life 
(Eternal Life), and we see that the eleventh 
verse says that after three days and a half the 
Spirit of life from God entered into them, thus 
showing that three and one-half days before 
that time the Spirit had left them. 

The bottomless pit is the Universe, and, 
naturally, the beast is Universalism. And this 
Universal ambition has taken a good hold on 
the leaders of these Candlesticks, and they 
naturally die to the Holy Spirit. 

We know that the spirit of Sodom was 
political; we know the spirit of Egypt was 
political and we also know that the political 
and militarist spirit ruled at the crucifixion of 
the Saviour; and recalling these facts, we may 
become perfectly convinced that this subject is 
the mere fight between the Holy Spirit and the 
political spirit. The Holy Spirit will be with- 
drawn for three and one-half years, and the 
political spirit will rule even in these two 
churches. 

But at the end of the three and one-half 
days, prophetical time, or three and one-half 



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My Last Call. 249 

years, literal time, the Holy Spirit is going to 
re-enter these two Candlesticks (churches), and 
then translation will come, but not until God 
has defeated the politicians at the head of these 
churches, and the fruits of the Spirit to the 
individual and the gifts of the Spirit to the 
church have been fully set up. Those who 
accept these two principles will be able to hear 
the great voice as recorded in the twelfth 
verse: ''Come up hither, 

''And they ascended up to heaven in a 
cloud, and their enemies beheld them." 

The official! of these two churches held 
their General Conference in San Francisco in 
April and May of 1918. It was at this con- 
ference when they gave their full signs that the 
beast of Universalism was overcoming them. 
The executive committee w^ent on record in 
their official paper, the Review and Herald, 
Takoma Park, Washington, D. C, and passed 
a resolution abolishing all the power of the 
Divisional Conferences and making them sub- 
ordinate to the General Conference. In some 
cases the lesser Conference was actually dis- 
solved. 

They elected their president and (four) vice- 
presidents, with a numerous amount of secre- 
taries. Thus the Universal beast had its way, 



250 The Truth of the Hour. 

and the prophecy was fulfilled in them. They 
are fulfilling the prophecy of the fourteenth 
chapter of Revelation to their credit and the 
eleventh chapter to some leaders' downfall. 

They created a great Universal Organiza- 
tion, with its power and offices, varying only in 
degree, if any, from the great Universal (Cath- 
olic) Church, with its Pope and subordinates, 
which latter has in no small degree been sternly 
criticized by the former for its Universal aspira- 
tions and supreme power vested in one man. 

It fell from the mouths of important leaders 
of this Candlestick that the San Francisco Gen- 
eral Conference was the most important of all 
in the history of the church. So it was, for at 
that meeting the great beast had its way, and 
so strong was the political spirit in authority 
that their able men expressed great enthusiasm 
and happiness over the good fortune of being 
connected Vv'ith such a great movement. Their 
political religion fairly beamed on their faces, 
and their tongues spoke the joy of their hearts 
when they actually realized that the power of 
their organization was reaching out and en- 
veloping the globe. 

By reading one of the issues of the Review 
and Herald of April, 1918, we see that the vice- 



My Last Call. 251 

presidents are specifically allotted territory that 
reaches out and almost envelops the globe. 

''Vice-President for South America re- 
elected"; "V^ice-President for Eastern Asia"; 
"Vice-President for India and i\ustralia"; "Vice- 
President for North America." 

We all know that these four offices are just 
three of the kind more than our Nation requires. 
It shows that they are figuring on controlling 
more than our Nation controls. It shows that 
they have brought great things and allotments 
of much territory and people under their 
president. 

In addition to the vice-presidents, the 
president has his secretaries: Secretary of the 
Treasury, Secretary of Educational Department, 
General Secretary, Secretary of Home Mission- 
aries, Secretary of Medical Department, Secre- 
tary of Volunteers, Secretary of (State) Religious 
Liberty, Two Field Secretaries, and still more 
of less importance. 

Thus this great Candlestick of light has 
wedded itself to temporal power Universalism 
and fulfilled one of the last important prophecies 
of the Bible for this generation. 

The political spirit and the Holy Spirit are 
soon to debit and credit their differences in such 



252 The Truth of the Hour. 

a manner that the last great hand is to be played. 
But the time is not yet when the Holy Spirit 
will use severe methods for His rights. He will 
withdraw for three and one-half years from the 
official date that the Candlestick of light went 
on record as endorsing political Universalism. 

He will not withdraw from the individuals 
of the churches who are practically clear of this 
political spirit, but he has already withdrawn 
from the officials who are directly guilty of this 
Universal ambition, and the body of the church 
will be dead for three and one-half years. God 
has spued them out of His mouth (has quit 
talking to them). 

At the end of the three and one-half years, 
literal time, the Holy Spirit is going to return, 
and then will be fulfilled the ten Virgins, as 
brought to view by the Saviour in the twenty- 
fourth chapter of Matthew. 

The political leader and their constituents 
will find they have no oil in their lamps, and 
without oil they will not have light to pass the 
right way. 

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